Re: gEDA-user: footprints

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:53:46AM -0500, 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).

When Protel is a POS, does Protel have also m4 vs. newlib footprints or
equivalent arbitrary problem?

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> 
> 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? ;-)