Oh crap, thats it, I made the silk with polygons, not lines... whoops... On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:04:35 -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote: > >> 1. Draw the silkscreen and pins (drawn with vias in the component layer) >> 2. Select all objects >> 3. Copy selection to buffer >> 4. Convert buffer to element >> 5. Save buffer elements to file > > Thats ok. > (I do all my footprints that way) > >> When i load the foorprint in PCB, the silkscreen is gone and all that >> remains is the pins. > > The silk of footprints can only deal with lines and arcs. All the other > objects like polygons, rectangles and text are silently omitted. in some > cases, the inability to put text in footprints lead me to literary draw > letters with the line tool... > > ---<(kaimartin)>--- > -- > Kai-Martin Knaak > Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >
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