Hi, I've created small library and utils in order to make the process of creating pcb footprints much easier. Basically library implements unit conversion, basic geometric shapes and electronic symbols drawing. Above this library there are footprints generators that takes some parameter eg. number of pins in connector and the output is footprint itself. On the top of that are shell scripts that are pasing standart values for number of pins/sizes of componets to footprint generators in order to generate all possible footprints. And all this you can run just by typing 'make' in top directory that will result in filling footprints directory with footprints.
The goal here is to create highly configurable system for automatic footprint creation where you can make small change in one place and regenerate all the footprints just by typing make. You can find first version at: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~metan/outgoing/pcb_utils.tar.bz2 What I'm not strong at are naming convetions (and it seems manufacturers are just confused as I am) so creating some rules here would be very usefull. Patches and comment are welcome :) -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
