Re: gEDA-user: Gschem and footprints

[Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friends -

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:43:50AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > For instance, here
> > are some footprint file names from my library:
> > 
> > Abracon_ABM8G.fp
> > ADAM_TECH_2PH_2.00_mm_pin_header_SMT_2_pin.fp
> > ADAM_TECH_2PH_2.00_mm_pin_header_SMT_3_pin.fp
> > ADAM_TECH_2PH_2.00_mm_pin_header_SMT_4_pin.fp
> > Antenna_Inverted_F__Ember__2.4GHz__62milFR4.fp
> > Antenna_Meandered_Inverted_F__2.4GHz__TI_AN043.fp
> 
> I like to have the footprint explicitly printed on the schematic. 
> So _my_ footprint names tend to be short :-)

I decided what I really want (and will probably whip up a quick
perl script to implement) is to have the schematic list _package_,
not footprint.  That way I can happily show "0805" or "SOIC-8"
as a _visible_ attribute in the schematic.  Then the mapping script
(and _its_ database) will turn that into RESC2012N or SO8M or whatever
keeps me and PCB happy.

  - Larry


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