Guys -- I happened to find a very interesting document calling out specifications for land pattern naming. You can get it here:
http://www.pcblibraries.com/resources/7351.asp It's the last item in the list. The land pattern naming convention is apparently an IPC standard. Perhaps if we adhered to this convention when creating footprint libraries, then we could eliminate some of the confusion surrounding the whole light vs. heavy symbol issue. That is, we could always point to the standardized names for the parts when newbies ask about which footprints exist. BTW: This web site has a number of interesting footprints for download. They are distributed in a strange compressed format. If you download the viewer and look at the footprint files with it, you will see the footprint info is somewhat comprehensible ASCII cleartext. Since the footprints claim to be IPC conformant, maybe a Perl script coule be used to convert them to gPCB format? Of course, John Luciani's massive collection of footprints already sets the standard for gPCB, so maybe we don't need these other footprints at all! Stuart
