Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

["L.J.H. Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve and all,

So if I understand this correctly, you are asking for someone to write
an exporter for pcb which outputs a file with XY-values of pads(pins)
with an ID-reference to be able to check for copper conductivity etc.
and maybe even frequency related impedance/capacitance (nelma ?).

Something like (a csv file):
<example>
#Id  X  Y  top/bottom
C1-1,100.50,50.20,top
C1-2,100.50,50.25,top
</example>

or

<example>
#refdes  pad  X  Y  top/bottom
C1,1,100.50,50.20,top
C1,2,100.50,50.25,top
</example>

Or does a defacto standard format already exist ?

Together with a netlist of connecting traces this would give enough
information for testing conductity in an automated fashion.

I think the BOM/XY exporter would be a good candidate to be extended for
this functionality, as it already calculates all the XY values of
pins/pads in some fashion.

Hmm, I should probably X-post this one to geda-dev.

Just my EUR 0.02

Kind regards,

bert Timmerman.

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:54 -0700, Steve Meier wrote:
> [snip]
> This is an issue that we need to address as board shops that have the
> ability to do point to point probing are asking for files that define
> the locations of each pad.
> 
> Steve M.




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