Re: gEDA-user: PCB Element for a Molex 71661-2068?

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan McMahill wrote:
> Ben Jackson wrote:

> > Is this to meet a pick & place requirement that was in the datasheet,
> > or is the Mark arbitrary?
>
> The mark is not used by pcb when generating the pick and place file. The 
> center of the part that goes in the XY file is the common centroid of 
> all the pins/pads.


What do you think of a different mark for the calculated centroid?  A + mark in 
a different color instead of the x origin mark?
I'd use it to sometimes put origin marks near the centroid if it was there.

John Griessen


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