Re: gEDA-user: RFC --- Land Pattern (Footprint) Names

[James Cotton <peabody124@xxxxxxxxx>]

That looks like really good work.  I wasn't sure exactly what the
script does though.  Does it generate a PCB layout file from a name,
or create the correct formated IPC strings?

Also what about creating an alias file so things like 0803 can still
be used and simply map over to an IPC name?

If it generates/could generate the PCB lands, how hard would it be to
integrate the perl script into gsch2pcb so that upon generating your
pcb it would create the necessary land patterns and put them into a
folder.  Would this create major issues with updating pcb's if that
script had a new revision of the script though?

Good work,
James



On 7/8/05, Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Sex 08 Jul 2005 15:09, John Luciani escreveu:
> >   I have placed a first draft of my land pattern naming convention at
> > http://www.luciani.org
> > The naming convention is based on IPC-7351.
> >
> > Please send questions, comments, observations either to the list or to
> > (jluciani) *AT* gmail.com
> > (as appropriate).
> >
> > (* jcl *)
> 
> Absolutelly fabulous!!!!
> I didnt know that IPC have a free document about it.
> I have a doubt: would it be possible in gschem, when I draw a component (like
> a resistor) to have multiple footprints associated to it, and when I place a
> component and open the Atrib Editor window (I dont remeber the correct name
> of this window because my gschem is in portuguese) to choose one of the
> footprints of the component?
> Or the best should be have one component symbol for every kind of footprint?
> (thats because is hard to remeber the correct syntax for a simple resistor,
> for example...)
> 
>