On 10/7/07, Randall Nortman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:45:47PM -0400, John Luciani wrote: > [...] > > You could definately do it with a script but unless you have a lot of > > footprints > > to update or have to update a number of layouts it may not be worth it. > > Well, if the script is generic (rather than hard-coding which > footprints you're looking for), it only ever has to be written once, > and then used for many different footprints/layouts. The hardest part > is searching paths for the updated footprints -- that part could be > ripped from gsch2pcb (except that's written in C and this is a natural > job for a higher-level language).
It never seemed like it we save me enough time to bother with. > > If your components are on the grid manual replacement goes quickly. > > Well, that all depends on what "the grid" means. I usually end up > with boards that have components on different grids, and I often set > up a module/cluster of components on one grid, then select and move it > as a single mass, possibly onto another grid, and so the components > then end up on a fractional grid of some sort. This is particularly > likely when I'm using a metric grid on one module and imperial on > another. The part I'm looking at right now ended up with its center > on (1410.50,409.10), for one or both of those reasons (I can't really > recall). I place components on a 25mil grid. If I have a group of components that has gotten off grid I set a very fine grid (0.1mil) select a component center then move the group using that reference point back to the 25mil grid. The finest pitch metric device I have used is 0.5mm pitch. For 0.5mm and larger I haven't had issues with placing on a 25mil grid. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
