Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

["C P Tarun" <tcpip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You may want to try one of the many footprint scripts that are around.
> Making the footprints in a batch using a script is a lot less error prone
> than one by one in the GUI.
>
> If you are looking for DIPs or SIP headers with rounded pads over pins
> you could try my website.

Actually I've seen some of those scripts and they are lovely for the kind
of things they do. But I need to build much simpler footprints like TO220
devices, but with elongated pads. These are best done by hand, I guess.
I even like TO92 to have elongated pads. I suspect I'm just unsure of my
soldering skills and like larger pads, that's all. :)

One area where I'll be developing scripts is for simple capacitors. I want
pretty-looking non-polar and cylindrical electrolytic caps of various sizes.
(No elongated pads needed.) Resistors I've already done by hand.

Tarun


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