Re: gEDA-user: Where to place pcb footprints?

[Peter Baxendale <peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you mean where pcb finds footprints, displayed in its "library"
window, then you can set this in ~/.pcb/preferences. I have a line:
"library-newlib = ./footprints:/home/des0prb/pcb/geda/footprints" in
there.

Personally I don't ever use the pcb library window though, because I
always do pcbs from schematics. Here what matters is where gsch2pcb
looks for its footprints. I put this in a project file in the working
directory for the design, using a line like
"elements-dir /home/des0prb/pcb/geda/footprints"
I believe you can also specify this on the command line to gsch2pcb, but
I find the project file approach more convenient. Make is an alternative
of course.

Hope this helps. If others have better ways of doing this, I'd be glad
to hear them.

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 00:02 +0100, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Where is a good place to store pcb footprints? For previous projects I
> just copied them to the global footprint directories, but I suppose
> that's not really the right place. The pcb documentation tells me to
> place project-specific footprints in pkg/newlib. I'd prefer some place
> under my home directory for footprints used by multiple projects, but
> how do I tell pcb and gsch2pcb to look there? Is there some
> configuration file for this? The pcb documentation mentions nothing
> about configuration files. Maybe pcb doesn't have one? Is the command
> line option to gsch2pcb the only way to tell it where to look for
> footprints?

-- 
Peter Baxendale <peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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