Re: gEDA-user: PCB template?

[Ethan Swint <eswint.ramu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> I am designing a couple of boards (if successful more than 2) that 
> have the same "form factor".  That is they are the same physical size 
> and both (all) have fingers to plug into a card slot on a mother 
> board.  So I don't have to worry about registration of the fingers 
> each time I come up with a new board, is there a way I can define a 
> PCB template that includes the fingers?  That seems like it would be 
> hard to do since the fingers are a connector on the schematic and 
> wouldn't line up right without some tricks.  The other option might be 
> if there were a command line to PCB that I could execute to tell it 
> "put pin 1 of conn1 at X, Y".  Or would it be best to have a template 
> that has a target in silk to line the fingers up?
> I'm open to the simplest solution.
Make a board with only the connector loaded, at the desired position.  
When you would like to lay out a new board, copy & rename the "template" 
file, renumber the connector, then run gschem2pcb.  It will make an 
additional .pcb file that you can then "load layout data from file". 

-Ethan

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