Re: gEDA-user: PCB & Gschem

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 24, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Marc Price wrote:
> Oh Well if a newbie cant work out what footprint you might as well 
> scrap Geda right now
> It will be consigned to the grave yard of electronics programs.

  Oh nonono.  You're missing the point here, man.

  The newbie in question (just like anyone else) will need to figure 
out what components he or she can obtain.  If your only source of 
components is a retail electronics outlet, you'll probably be limited 
to 1/4W through-hole resistors.  However, others (like me) may use, for 
example, 0805-size surface mount resistors almost exclusively.  It's 
not gschem's responsibility to make that decision.

  Schematics are a logical representation of a circuit's ELECTRICAL 
topology...not its implementation in the physical world.  There's a big 
abstraction layer there.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL