Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] "first board" docs

[Martin Maney <maney@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0800, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:35:03AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > Comments?  Ideas?
> 
> Don't shy away from new symbol and footprint creation.  That's a very
> necessary part of building any but the simplest boards.

+1

The tutorials I saw all looked so simple that it was quite a shock when
I tried a "real" board (c. two dozen simple parts) and found that the
transistors all didn't work because of the EBC vs 321 mismatch.  And
finding the right names for the m4 footprints was another surprise -
don't recall where I came across a probably incomplete list that was
adequate for that layout.

Hmmm.  One thing I had "fun" with was the odd and unanticipated
behavior of a drawing frame - I wanted to switch to portrait, I think
it was, and while it's easy to stick a frame and title block in, until
you stumble across locking it down it tends to get selected and moved
around accidentally a lot.  :-/  It's not that it's very obscure, just
that when everything is new, there's a lot of stuff you don't yet
recognize...

> I'd actually like to see a video that goes through the entire process
> so you can't "cheat" and skip steps...

The not skipping steps is important, but I don't care for an actual
video.  It's too easy to miss details that pass by - they're there,
they just aren't as obvious as if they had to be mentioned in words. 
But both would be no bad thing.  :-)

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on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him
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