On 18 Mar 2011, at 07:35, Nick wrote:
On Mar 18, 3:00 am, koolatron <[email protected]> wrote:
I've tried several times to generate a sane EAGLE footprint that fits
"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.
Are those angles definite Nicko? Sneaky.
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...
I hacked a version of Sockulator (sic) to allow me to enter diameter
and number of pins. I find this far more versatile than the more
complicated pin measuring system, especially if I do actually know
the diameter. But the pin measuring system is also useful when it
isn't known. It's also easy to hack the javascript to allow more than
the default 30 pins. I needed to lay out clock faces, 60 pins to a
circle. So I'd add the ability to add more than 30 pins in future
releases. I work with the Osmond PCB version, so people, please don't
ask me if I can send you a hacked Eagle version, as I don't have one.
John S
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