On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > [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.
This is true, but we should say that this is in first order a problem for beginners. I can remember that I struggled with a few footprints for my first board, I think the problem was about mixing m4 footprints with parameters and newlib footprints. But this is really a minor problem if one has some experience. Much more difficult is to ensure that all your footprints on your PCB board really match with your devices. One has to do a printout of the PCB board and place all devices on it. Next time, when you order parts from a different company, you may get other shapes again... And one has to consider the soldering process, i.e. hand soldering may need extended pads for DFN devices. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
