Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] "first board" docs

[Ian Chapman <ichapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi DJ,
	I've struggled through my first board and assembled my first example
based on the 3 for 33$ special that you mentioned.  The learning curve
was a bit steep but it worked out really well.

	It was a bit off the main stream in that I am into high voltage pulses
with a fair bit of current and odd (non-M4) shaped components heat
sinks, transformers heavy traces and good spacing etc.  The document
that I found to be really useful was "land_patterns-20050129.pdf" from
http://www.brorson.com and I can only get at it through
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html#Connector for
some strange reason.

>From the date it looks to be three years out of date and possibly there
have been many improvements since then.  Possibly a comment line and
other stuff would be handy.  In any case it was a great improvement
after all the frustrations with OrCAD footprints in that I had control
over the pin hole size without the stupid thing reverting to too small.

	The comment that I might make would be to divide the documentation into
developer stuff (file formats) and user stuff (footprint symbol
generation and low level placement routing) for people who need a quick
start cook book.  I'm sure that all docs are there only I seem to go in
circles finding what I need to give a tweak and waste time reading stuff
I do not fully understand.  Possibly you could consider links to this
sort of article for your last chapter?  Regards Ian.



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