On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 00:12 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > They are new components. We are panelizing a board with several
> > variants of a tricky footprint to see which one will work best in the
> > SMT process.
>
> Perhaps you could hack the new Import code to specify the placement of
> parts being added, perhaps via an Attribute() ? The default is to
> place the part at 0,0 but if you look for an override...
xgsch2pcb already allows pasting at an offset, as it uses the
paste-buffer.
Here is a snipped from its "pcbmanager.py":
if self.pcb_actions_iface.ExecAction("LoadFrom", ["LayoutToBuffer",
newparts]):
# TODO: WARN USER?
pass
# Paste the new components near the origin
if self.pcb_actions_iface.ExecAction("PasteBuffer",
["ToLayout","10","10","mil"]):
# TODO: WARN USER?
pass
I'm sure, given a known footprint origin on your file, you could
"FootprintToBuffer" and then paste with a programmed offset.
Best wishes,
Peter C.
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