Re: gEDA-user: Footprints in PCB

[Christian Treldal <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ons, 30 03 2005 kl. 06:05 -0500, skrev John Luciani:
> I have parts available at
> http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html
> 
> Also on the site is a Perl library that can be used to create parts.

Hi John

Yes I'm aware of your footprints, and I'm happy to use them. I just
don't really see the reason for having all those product specific
footprints for capacitors. The old footprint for a radial capacitor
followed by spacing for the legs, does fine. It's easier to remember and
you change the size by specifying the with between legs.

I could understand the way you are doing it, if you had created a bunch
of capacitor symbols with attributes for value, type and footprint, for
use in gschem. In this way you could just pick a symbol with right
value, and the footprint will fit.

By the way, there are a small OOoops at your site. It's impossible to
look at the gif for all the

header-sip-Mill-Max-800-1x1

Best whishes

Chris
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