Re: gEDA-user: gschem2pcb Issues

[Chris Ellec <chris.ellec@aegisdevices.com>]

radiowdvl@hushmail.com wrote:
 >> I've had the same problem and solved it by choosing only
 >> footprints existing in the pcb-m4-directory. Then it worked fine.
 >>
 >
 >
 > Pardon my ignorance, but how do you know what are acceptable footprints
 > whithin that directory?  Are they listed in the *.m4 or in the *.inc
 > files?  What purpose do the *.list files serve? I tried a couple of
 > the values in the to.inc file, in gschem setting "footprint=PKG_TO92"
 > as per the definition:
 >
 > define(`PKG_TO92', `Element(0x00 "$1" "$2" "$3" 60 70 0 100 0x00) (


Just remove PKG_ from the name to get the actual package name, in this 
case TO92. PKG_DIL would become DIL, which you have to use with at least 
2 parameters such as:

footprint=DIL 14 300

The "list" files are used by the PCB program to offer the footprints in 
the "library" window for people who only import netlist then place the 
components by hand.

Chris.