Re: gEDA-user: Script for converting mm to hundredths of thou

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:59 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a European under the age of 40, and as such my brain works in
> metric.  So I'll write footprints for PCB in metric, then do the
> conversion over to those weird units as a last step.  So I banged the
> attached script together.  This replaces all instances of "Nmm" (e.g.
> '0.127mm') with their value in hundredths of thou.
> 
> Maybe this'll also be useful to others who are on this list.
> 
> For those who might be interested, this utility lives in the Student
> Robotics tools git repository:
> https://www.studentrobotics.org/cgit/tools.git/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 

Thanks.

I think recent PCB program can use mm and nm units in footprint files.

Do you really create the footprints files with an editor, without the
help of scripts? My sfg.rb script works fine with mm unit.




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