On 7/27/07, armdeveloper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:35 -0400, John Luciani wrote: > > On 7/27/07, armdeveloper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had to hand route that because the footprint pin > > > identifiers didn't match the symbol. > > > > Hand routing is a very bad idea. You should create a set of symbols and > > footprints that match so that your schematic and PCB are always in sync. > > > > You could post a *simple* schematic and PCB that demostrate the > > problem. > > I agree that hand routing is bad. Go back and look at the suggested > solutions to some of my header questions and manual layout/ hand routing > was suggested, as far as I can tell.
I thought I saw a couple recommendations against it. > I'm finding footprints in pcb to be a large headache. As a matter of > fact, the majority of my time has been spent messing around with > footprints. Is anyone working on a footprint viewer/editor ? Kind of > like gschem has a symbol editor ? Excuse my ignorance... For footprint viewing I usually just use PCB or the pictures on my website. For editing I use EMACS to edit the script that created the footprint file (all of my footprints are made with scripts). I place all of my production footprints in one directory and run a bash file called sch2pcb which contains the lines --- #!/bin/bash gsch2pcb --use-files --elements-dir /local/lan/pcb/packages $@ my footprints are in the /local/lan/pcb/packages directory. To find a footprint by name I use dired mode in EMACS to quickly search through the list. With the IPC7351-like names finding the appropriate footprint is usually quite easy. If I want to see a picture first I go to http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
