Hi Steve, Q: Are we going to conform to the "IPC-7351 Naming convention for Landpatterns" ?.
To throw in my EUR 0.02 and FWIW, I've started writing a pcb2dxf tool and will try to continue with a dxf2pcb, gschem2dxf and/or dxf2gschem tool. The tools would be command-line driven (just like gnetlist), no fancy GUI planned and written in as plain as possible C (GPL'ed). By means of DXF, g.a.f. would obtain portability to AutoCAD(tm) and/or other (mechanical) CAD programs, and g.a.f. would be able to design the mechanical aspects of the PCB/PCA as well. What I intend to end up with (long term goal, as in "I have a dream") is a pcb2wrl (VRML-2.0) tool for viewing the PCB with components in 3D view and/or geometrically extracted footprints (to check for mechanical constraints and WYSIWYG). I think there are VRML viewers allready out there, so no GUI planned as well. pcb2dxf and a lib with dxf routines are about 30% ready (I have to guess here because I have limited time resources, about 6 hours of coding/debugging per week, so I will not release anything on the list in the near future ... 2004). Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -- In a world without walls and fences, who would need windows and gates ;-) -- -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Meier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 21 oktober 2004 16:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gEDA: Patches for PCB automake/autoconf system This is my intention... to produce a library of land patterns for pcb with matching symbols for gaf and eventually for spice or other simulators. Steve Meier Dan McMahill wrote: >However, I'd probably like to just remove that footprint builder >unless someone else feels very strongly. I think the QFP footprints >in the ~geda library have been checked out more carefully and >thats where I'd rather put the effort in improving the library. > >Comments anyone? > >
