On Mar 18, 3:00 am, koolatron <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've tried several times to generate a sane EAGLE footprint that fits
> this socket, and have met with only failure.  The socket has 16 pins,
> which would at first blush correspond to a 17-pin ring of evenly-
> spaced contacts, with one missing.  That, however, is not not the case
> -- each 90-degree quadrant has four contacts, and they appear to be
> spaced unevenly around the circle.
>
> Before I go out and buy a set of calipers to measure this socket, has
> anyone managed to generate a working PCB footprint for it?

Well, I won't do it for you, but have a look at the way my & Jason
Harper's "soculator" generates scripts (http://www.desmith.net/NMdS/
Electronics/soculator.html) and then take a look at Eagle's "polar"
coordinate system - that should easily generate an arc of 16 pins @
21.5 degrees from each other, followed by a gap of 37.5 degrees.

I've been meaning to change the soculator to use polar coordinates,
but its a fairly recent Eagle addition and I didn't want to prejudice
users of older versions...

Cheers

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