gEDA-user: footprint creation war

["Phil Taylor" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The best way I've found to create footprints is in a text editor.

If there is the goal of making a shared library, shouldn't the parts going
into it be detailed and exact as only text-written parts can be?  Think of
converting a footprint's dimensions from mils to millimeters and reading
"2.00" on your calculator ... it gives legibility and confidence. 

Does anyone have a problem if I recommend on the wiki that writing footprints
in text is the fastest(?) best(?) most precise(?) most legible(?) or ____ way
to make footprints?

Does anyone actually make footprints on-screen?

Phil




sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> > It seems I should pay more attention to the manual "where there's nice
> > short instructions for creating footprints, which doesn't cover things
> > like soldermasks though" (and less to the wiki, where there is an
> > obscure 36-step instruction to create footprints, but it doesn't say
> > that you should "enable view soldermask as step 14.5").
> 
> I plead guilty to that.  I did a screen scrape of an instruction
> posted by another geda-user contributor (who shall remain anonymous)
> and just stuck it onto the wiki.   
> 
> If somebody wants to take the time to clean up this instruction, I
> would be forever grateful.  Otherwise, wait until the April Circuit
> Cellar magazine comes out, and follow the instructions in there.  ;-) 
> 
> Stuart
>