Phil Taylor wrote: > I've been polling. You both have been outspoken on footprint creation, so to > speak. I have done only one footprint from scratch and modified the massive amount of three. So I did not feel like I could contribute a stable opinion. > > Do you make footprints in a text editor or just on-screen? Both. I took a five pin connector from the library and moved the pads on-screen according to the data sheet. When pcb did not allow me to det the first pad to square, I took an editor and looked into the "footprint-source". For some reason the status parameter of the pads contained a string instead of a number. So I set this parameter to the proper square value with the editor. This is when I discovered that the syntax reference in the pcb manual was not quit in step with my version of pcb. I Think, I will prefer doing my footprints with the GUI. Since I do mainly analog circuitry, the pincount (padcount?) of my footprints is rarely beyond 14. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://lilalaser.dyndns.org/blog
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