Re: gEDA-user: How to make a foot print

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:34 -0800, blueeagle2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>    I was wondering if someone could give me a good step by step on how to
>    make a foot print.

Many footprints are available, some shipped with PCB, some at
gedasymbols.org, some at
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html

You can draw footprints in PCB program, it it described somewhere.

You can use generators, some graphical, some command line based like
footgen or my

http://www.ssalewski.de/SFG.html.en

You can try to understand the footprint file format, reading

http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20070818.pdf

or my summary

http://www.ssalewski.de/PcbFootprintRef.txt





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