Re: gEDA-user: How to do PCB Autorouting with non-plated holes

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin D Bennett wrote:

>> Well, you could do the heavy lifting with an awk script: 
>> 
>>  If the current line is a pin,
>>     set the diameter of the pin to zero and add a hole flag
>>     ouput a round pad with the diameter of the pins annular ring
>>  else, 
>>     output the current line unchanged.   
> 
> Could you do this on the layout (.pcb file) after all elements are
> placed so he would not even need to create new footprint files?

Sure. 
It would get a little nasty though, if you require the script to ignore 
the already converted pins.  

---<)kaimartin(>---
-- 
Kai-Martin Knaak
Email: kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53
increasingly unhappy with moderation of geda-user



_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user