Re: gEDA-user: footprints

["John Luciani" <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here are two ways to this ---

  1. Use gattrib
  2. Place a single resistor and set its footprint attribute.
      Do edit->copy to place copies of the updated resistor

(* jcl *)

On 2/25/06, Marc Price <mark.price13@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok if i have 30 resistors in an application and i want to add a
> footprint to all of them
> in one go can i do this
>
> Marc :-P
>
>
> Marc Price wrote:
>
> > Ok i kinda got it, very difficult to do what a pain
> >
> > Marc ;-)
> >
> >
> > Marc Price wrote:
> >
> >> What directory have i got to be in before using
> >>
> >> grep -i 'resistor 0.25W' pcblib.contents
> >>
> >> MARC  :-P
> >>
> >>
> >> DJ Delorie wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I went to PCB and looked at the libraries then found what i wanted
> >>>> example resistor 0.25W i then went to Gschem went down Symbol add
> >>>> attribute then said footprint = resistor 0.25W
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Ok, this part *is* confusing, mostly because you're using the old m4
> >>> libraries which weren't designed for gschem use (the new "newlib"
> >>> libraries are, but we haven't converted over completely).
> >>>
> >>> What you see in the PCB library dialog is, on the left, the library
> >>> category, and on the right, the *description* of the footprint.  Not
> >>> the actual footprint name.  Easy to get wrong.
> >>>
> >>> For the old m4 libraries (these are the ones that have the ~ on the
> >>> category name) you need to figure out what the footprint name is from
> >>> the description.  Sadly, the only way to do that at the moment is to
> >>> search the pcblib.contents file (er,
> >>> /usr/local/share/pcb/pcblib.contents by default, I think)
> >>>
> >>> Something like this:
> >>>
> >>>  $  grep -i 'resistor 0.25W' pcblib.contents  r_025:R025:resistor
> >>> 0.25W:Description_r_025
> >>>
> >>> The second field, "R025" in this case, is what you want for footprint=
> >>> attribute.  At least, that's what my old schematics use.  Might try
> >>> the first field if the second doesn't work.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If you use the newlib libraries (the ones without ~), the name in the
> >>> right column is the footprint to use.  See why we're switching? ;-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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