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

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:34:04 +0200
Kovacs Levente <leventelist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When you use a light symbol, a script finds a pinmap, and constructs
> a heavy symbol. Say for example if you have a SOT23 diode with A1A2K
> pinout you'll get a symbol with name like 'diode-SOT23-A1A2K.sym'
> this symbol is then copied to the project's symbol directory, and the
> original symbol name in the schematic is replaced by the name of the
> newly created symbol. The script will add other information as well
> like footprint name, etc.
> 
> With this, you don't have to mess with your symbols nor with your
> footprints, and everything works quite well for me.
> 
> Of course, everything is makefile driven... etc. The pinmap and
> symbol names are coming from a database.

Nice!  That sounds very slick.  Have you shared your code for this
pin-mapping tool?

Regards,
Colin


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