Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 11:41 -0500, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
> 
> What I've found myself doing for this is to run PCB and flip through
> its footprint library until I find the particular footprint I want, 

Of course, if you have an idea of the name of the footprint (i.e. from
Datasheet) one may try something like

stefan@AMD64X2 ~ $ locate -i LED |grep .fp
/usr/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib/geda/LED3.fp
/usr/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib/geda/LED5.fp
/usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25/LED-254P-320D__Kingbright_3mm.fp
/usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25/LED-254P-580D__Kingbright_5mm.fp
/usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25/LED-254P-460D__Kingbright_4mm.fp

(We may skip the "grep .fp" because there may exist footprints without
extension .fp)

And you may try a similar search at

http://www.gedasymbols.org/
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html

For oldlib/m4 footprints it may be more difficult, I have always
problems to remember meaning of names like ACY...

But at least that names makes much more sense than 

blueeagle2@xxxxxxxxx and ZK of the origial author.





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