[email protected] wrote: > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for > the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use > for other components.
You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not much in the tools to aid the selection. In particular, there is no footprint choosing mechanism in gschem. You have to know by yourself which footprint fits and type in its name. The gattrib tool may reduce the amount of typing. But it also does not help choose a correct footprint. I settled for the following work-around: 1) add a default footprint to all the symbols I use. So I automatically get this default footprint if I instantiate the symbol. That way, I don't have to enter that 0805 Footprint attribute again and again. This covers about 90% of the cases. 2) organize my footprints in comprehensive layout sheets. That is, a pcb with all the capacitors, one with all the generic two pin SMD footprints, one for the connectors, etc. If I don't remember the exact name of a non- default footprint, I look at these sheets with pcb. I check the names of the pins with the D key. If you pull a complete copy of the gedasymbols.org repository, my comprehensive footprint sheets will be included. ---<)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
