Re: gEDA-user: Gschem footprint attributes in PCB

[Terry Porter <techman@d2.net.au>]

On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:24:09 -0500
Mark Cianfaglione <mark.cianfaglione@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I've been working with gschem and pcb for a couple of days now to 
> familiarize myself with the tools and I've noticed that the footprint= 
> attribute in gschem does not match up with the footprint coding in 
> pcb. It's not suprising but I was wondering if people using these two 
> packages are simply re-coding the gschem library footprint= attribute 
> or is there some other magical method of getting around this problem.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

I've never used the footprint attribute of gschem (so far), instead preffering to assign footprints
at the pcb stage by selecting the component footprint manually and naming it to the component number from my
gschem bom.

I use "gnetlist -gPCB gschem-file.sch -o pcb-netlist.net" to accomplish this.

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