Re: gEDA-user: footprint=none

[Bill Wilson <billw@wt.net>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:46:50 -0500 (EST)
sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> Why have a footprint attribute at all?  I would just omit the attrib
> if  there is no associated PCB footprint.  It is not required.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am doing cable assemblies at the moment.  I have made several symbols 
> > for the connectors involved and because these connectors are not made to 
> > be soldered to a PCB I have used footprint=none to comply with the 
> > required footprint= attribute.  Is this a legal use/value of/for the 
> > footprint= attribute?  None is not in the footprint naming conventions 
> > of the symbol creation guide.

But if there's no footprint attib, wouldn't the symbol also need to
have the graphical=1 attrib?  Otherwise the current gsch2pcb/gnetlist
backend would get confused.

To cover the bases, I could make gsch2pcb aware of a "none" footprint...

Bill