On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:07 -0400, Barry Demers wrote: > At this point I am somewhat > concerned with my understanding of how the footprint files are > distributed throughout the file structure. I am hoping that they are > arranged in a fashion similar to symbol files with the hierarchy of > the "rc" files allowing for footprints that I import/create on my > own.
Fine that you made some progress with your problems. I still wonder what did you guide to the graphical tool Xgsch2pcb instead of the plain command line based. When I read the tutorials they refer to plan gsch2pcb only. Has this changed? Getting the right footprints can be a problem for beginners -- I can remember that I had problems with m4 footprints and invalid file names. My current project file looks like this: ste...@amd64-x2 ~ $ cat /mnt/data/stefan/gEDA/DAD/p1 schematics FPGA_Power.sch FPGA_B0B1.sch FPGA_B2B3.sch RAM.sch ADC.sch TDC.sch Digital_In_A.sch Digital_In_B.sch Digital_In_C.sch InputDividerCh1.sch InputDividerCh2.sch AmplifierCh1.sch AmplifierCh2.sch Controller.sch PowerManager.sch DC_DC_Converter.sch Lin_Regulators.sch Misc.sch AmpCommon.sch output-name b1 skip-m4 elements-dir /usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25 elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/imported-footprints elements-dir /mnt/data/stefan/gedasymbols/www/user/stefan_salewski/footprints elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints I do disable m4 footprints with skip-m4 statement (we can do this because we have newlib copies for all m4 now). Footprint directories have priority order -- when equal names occur multiple times, the later entries in the project file have precedence. So files in /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints overwrite other files for my installation. Best regards Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
