Re: gEDA-user: Flame about XML (was: Some footprints I tried to create)

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > vi layout.pcb
> > pcb -x gerber layout.pcb
>
>
> Thank you, Dan, for expressing it so succinctly!  This is exactly how I
> use PCB at the present moment.  Of course it would be just a tad too
> difficult to do the whole layout this way, but that's exactly why I plan
> on hiring someone else to do the layout for me while insisting that it
> be done in GNU PCB rather than some proprietary package: while the
> layout itself is a job too visual for my ASCII brain and it's just
> simply a job that I feel someone else would do gazillion times better
> than me, having it in the text-based PCB format would allow me to do any
> necessary minor tweaks afterward by the very method that Dan has just
> demonstrated.

you know.... I was mostly kidding... except that I did the layout of a 
patch antenna with a microstrip quadrature network on it in almost this 
way.  I wrote an awk program that spit out the layout.   Unfortunately 
this was prior to my PCB days and it was for a *cough* commercial 
*cough* *cough* windows based tool.  But in that case it really was 
easier to describe exactly what I wanted in code.

If/when we expand the footprint capability to include polygons, I could 
easily see wanting to do that again.

awk -f spiral.awk inductance=5e-9 > ind1.fp

mmmmmm awk.

-Dan


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