Re: gEDA-user: footprint=none

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:33:50PM -0600, Bill Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:30:09 -0500 (EST)
> sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson) wrote:
> 
> > > To cover the bases, I could make gsch2pcb aware of a "none" footprint...
> > 
> > This seems to be emminently sensible.  There are plenty of times one
> > wants to include a "footprintless" part in a schematic, but not have
> > it upset the netlister/pcb package.
> 
> I'll do that then.
> 
> And in the meantime, to have things work with gschem->gsch2pcb->PCB where
> there is a footprint=none and not setting graphical, you can use the
> gsch2pcb remove unfound option (run "gsch2pcb -r project" or put
> "remove-unfound" in a project file).
> 
> You'll just have to monitor gsch2pcb output to make sure that the
> only footprints that gsch2pcb can't find are "none" and not
> something you really want.
> 

sometimes I set footprint=none on a sort of generic connector symbol to make
sure that I don't forget to override it at the schematic level.

-Dan

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