Re: gEDA-user: footprints

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:16:21PM +0000, Marc Price 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

Click left on all of them, then press 'aa', and select footprint,
the value you want and click up some more boxes and OK. Or use gattrib.

CL<

> 
> 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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