> You don't really know if it works until you fab a board and try to > solder the part to it.
That's true. Anyway, my point is that newbies seem to have a hard time with more mundane things like the footprints being syntactically wrong, or perhaps not on the correct search path. The best that a bunch of Free Doggers could do is verify that each footprint loads without error into PCB from a .sch export (via gsch2pcb). It is really up to the user to verify that the footprint will correctly fit the part. As a first pass, I often read my Gerbers into GCPrevie (*ugh*! Windoze again!) and then print them out 1:1. Then I place my parts on their footprints to verify that they fit correctly. This doesn't catch subtle errors like 2 mil too short for a solder foot. But since most footprint errors are large and not subtle, my method catches a lot of errors. I'd do it with PostScript output straight from PCB, but I understand that PostScript's 1:1 doesn't really mean 1:1 exactly. Or am I wrong? Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
