Re: gEDA-user: Footprints with mounting holes

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 03:07 +1000, spuzzdawg wrote:
> Hi gEDA list,
> 
> I"m fairly new to gEDA but enjoying the ride so far. I'm creating a
> library of my own symbols and footprints and I've run into an issue
> where I havea  footprint that requires holes to be cut into the PCB for
> mounting holes rather than for pins. I'm not too sure how to handle
> this. 
> 
> I assume that I need to put it into the footprint file as a normal pin
> but what do I do with pin names etc? If I had a 4-pin device and gave
> the mounting holes pin-no 5 and 6 doesn't gsch2pcb whinge at me later
> for assigning an inappropriate footprint to a symbol? Similarly, if I
> give the mounting holes the same pin number as one that is already used,
> don't I run the risk of accidentally connecting nets together?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> spuzzdawg
> 

Total number of pins for symbols and footprints must not match.
For the footprint it should be OK to use a free pinnumber or to use an
empty string. You may look look at existing footprints with mounting
holes like DSUB connectors.





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