Re: gEDA-user: solder pads showing on wrong side of board.

[David Froseth <dfro@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,
	I tried the flag change to 0x0880 earlier today - 'bit 7:  pad is 
located on the solder side'.  I still do not  like the result.  Now all 
of the pin holes are gone in the element when I print out my board.  I 
want the pin holes to help guide me in drilling those tiny holes.  Is 
the pads covering the pin holes intentional?  Could it be fixed or has 
it been fixed?

	This is revealing some very basic confusion I have over how pcb is 
initially layed out.  Choosing the red/component line from the 'Layer' 
menu to make traces on the solder side, and choosing the blue/solder 
line to make traces on the comonent side is very confusing.  I guess all 
I have to do is rename the layers to suite my way of thinking about it.

	I mainly was using your DIP symbols.

Thanks for the symbols and the response,
Dave

John Luciani wrote:
> On 6/17/06, David Froseth <dfro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >         I have run into a snag trying to use the symbols that John 
> > Luciani has
> > shared.  I really like how he has created the oval shaped solder pads.
> > However, they are printing on the front side of my layout.
> > Only the round pin/pads are showing on the back side.
>
>
> This is a mistake in my footprints. There is only a single pad 
> (component side)
> over the pin when there should be two pads (component and solder side).
> I believe I corrected my Perl library but never regenerated the 
> footprints that
> use the rounded pads.
>
> If you are only using a few footprints you can correct them using
> EMACS by copying
> PAD lines and changing a flag in the copied line. For example ---
>
> In DIP-14-300 the pin 1 pad line looks like this ---
>
> Pad[-16500 -30000 -13500 -30000 6000 2000 8000 "" "1" 0x0800]
>
> Insert a line after the pin one pad line that looks like this
>
> Pad[-16500 -30000 -13500 -30000 6000 2000 8000 "" "1" 0x0880]
>
> the 0x80 flag adds a pad to the solder side.
>
> Please send me a list of the footprint names where you have found the 
> problem
> and I will get them fixed.
>
> Sorry for the mixup.
>
> (* jcl *)
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