Re: gEDA-user: more element confusion

[Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>]

DJ Delorie wrote:

> > Pin(X Y Thickneess DrillingHole Name PinNumber Flags)
> >
> > But in the actual files are found pins like:
> >
> > Pin(0 0 70 30 70 28 "" "1" 0x00000101)
> >
> > Note the extera two parameters.  What are they?
> >    
> PCB accepts five different pin syntaxes, to support backwards
> compatibility.  The latest is as follows:
>
> Pin(X Y Thickness Clearance Mask DrillingHole Name PinNumber Flags)
>
>
>  
Pin Macro:
         x, y, thickness, clearance, mask, drilling hole, name, number, 
flags

x,y - location of center of hole

thickness -  size of pad surounding hole

clearence   - seperation between pad and surrounding polygons

mask  -  shadow mask clearence

drilling hole - size of drill bit

name  - name of hole text

number - hole number for an object

flags - make the pad square et al