On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:33:50PM -0600, Bill Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:30:09 -0500 (EST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote: > > > > To cover the bases, I could make gsch2pcb aware of a "none" footprint... > > > > This seems to be emminently sensible. There are plenty of times one > > wants to include a "footprintless" part in a schematic, but not have > > it upset the netlister/pcb package. > > I'll do that then. > > And in the meantime, to have things work with gschem->gsch2pcb->PCB where > there is a footprint=none and not setting graphical, you can use the > gsch2pcb remove unfound option (run "gsch2pcb -r project" or put > "remove-unfound" in a project file). > > You'll just have to monitor gsch2pcb output to make sure that the > only footprints that gsch2pcb can't find are "none" and not > something you really want. >
sometimes I set footprint=none on a sort of generic connector symbol to make sure that I don't forget to override it at the schematic level. -Dan --
