Hi Stefan, On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Werner Hoch wrote: > >I'm using BCE as pinnumber attributes as long the footprint of the > >device (transistor) is not defined. Thus it's easy to replace them > > when adding a footprint. > > Hm. Can we not use letters for pinnumbers in gschem-symbols and the > same letters in the pcb footprint file?
Well, you can do that, but you would need a lot of footprint files to catch all the different devices that have the same footprint/package. Example: A TO-92 footprint can contain a bipolar transistor, thus the pin names would be B,C,E. If it's a FET the pin names should be G,S,D. For a 7805 voltage regultater it would be GND, Vin, Vout. With pin numbers you only need one footprint for all the different devices. Regards Werner _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
