Re: gEDA-user: ideeas for gschem and pcb

[Ben Jackson <ben@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:14:05PM +0300, Robas, Teodor wrote:
> 
> 1. Footprint alternatives. Basicaly this is done by adding some new 
> items in the .sym models:
> e.g.
> footprint_alternative1=DIP20
> footprint_alternative2=SSOP20

You can set multiple footprint attributes already, but I think what
happens is that the sch->pcb conversion takes the first one it can
find.  So not quite the same thing...

The other issue (which people are trying to solve) is that often the
alternate footprints have different pinouts.  7805 is a good example --
you can get it in at least TO92, TO220 (both 3-pin but different
pinouts) and SO8 (more pins altogether).

> 5. Some alignement tool may be useful too (or maybe I did not find it ?!).

I wrote a plugin which you can find at gedasymbols.org .  It should
probably be integrated at some point, but I haven't gotten a lot of
feedback.

-- 
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@xxxxxxx>
http://www.ben.com/


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