> Right. So the toner transfer method sounds like the one I ought to > try. Is it fairly accurate for two sided boards? I'm assuming you > guys mostly make two sided boards, so I suppose that's a yes, but I > thought I'd ask anyway.
Actually, most of my boards are primarily SMT, so the ones I make myself tend to be single sided, with very few holes. > And while I'm thinking of it: how do you drill accurate 1mm holes? A drill > press? I use a drill press, but part of the trick is to size the "holes" in the copper to the *tip* of the drill bit, not the diameter. That way, the copper helps you center the drill bit. > when I edit component attributes while making schematics (I was > trying out gEDA this weekend) I noticed that the footprint attribute > has to be edited "by hand" (as far as I know, anyway). For instance, > if I need a PCB outline for a resistor, I need to set footprint to > R025. Wouldn't it be easier to have a menu one could select > footprints from? I use gattrib to set all those, but yeah, we've discussed all this before. The problem is one of managing such a database, which could easily become HUGE. > Along those lines, if I want to see what footprints are available by > default, can I look at them in PCB or gerbv? Run pcb. Use Windows->Library to bring up the footprint library. The name in brackets (like [0603]) is the footprint name to use. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
