Re: gEDA-user: gschem vs. PCB diode pin numbering

[Ethan Swint <eswint.ramu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/23/2011 08:47 PM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
> I was double checking a pcb layout today and I discovered a rather 
> nasty gotcha. It seems that gschem and PCB don't agree on which end of 
> a diode should be pin 1. Gschem views pin 1 as the anode and PCB 
> considers pin 1 to be the cathode. It doesn't prevent you from laying 
> out a board correctly, but it does cause the silkscreen polarity to be 
> printed backwards (for the SOD devices at least).
I've defined my own symbols and footprints to use 'A' and 'K' instead of 
1 and 2.


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