On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:46:50 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote:
> Why have a footprint attribute at all? I would just omit the attrib > if there is no associated PCB footprint. It is not required. > > Stuart > > > Hello all, > > > > I am doing cable assemblies at the moment. I have made several symbols > > for the connectors involved and because these connectors are not made to > > be soldered to a PCB I have used footprint=none to comply with the > > required footprint= attribute. Is this a legal use/value of/for the > > footprint= attribute? None is not in the footprint naming conventions > > of the symbol creation guide. But if there's no footprint attib, wouldn't the symbol also need to have the graphical=1 attrib? Otherwise the current gsch2pcb/gnetlist backend would get confused. To cover the bases, I could make gsch2pcb aware of a "none" footprint... Bill
