Re: gEDA-user: pcb footprint pad creation

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

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From: Steve Meier <smeier@meierrippin.com>

David,

Get a copy of my document.

www.meierrippin.com/pcb_landpattern_design.pdf


David Koski wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Forgive the simple question but I cannot find the answer in the scant
>documentation "Pcb-20031110".  For creating a Newlib footprint, paragraph 7.2.1
>"Creating Newlib Footprints" says:
>
>3. For leaded part, select the via tool and place vias where the pads for the
>part should go.  For surface mount pads, draw line segments.
>
>4. For each via and line segment which will become a pad, select it, right-click
>to bring up the popup menu and choose "edit name".  Enter the pin number and
>press enter.
>
>
>When using the via too, the via can indeed be named but when using the line
>tool, the line segment can be named but it does not become a pad.  Furthermore,
>I want the pads to be square and not rounded like lines.  Also, when using the
>rectangle tool to make a pad, it cannot be named.
>
>How to make pads?!
>
>Thank you,
>David Koski
>david.nospham@KosmosIsland.com
>!.nospham
>