Re: gEDA-user: PCB footprints

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:17 +0530, vsrk sarma wrote:
> As a new user to geda &PCB i have some queries.
> 
>    I notice the pin numbers (given in pcblib-newlib footprint files such
>    as DB25f.fp) listed in quotes inside text files are not used and PCB
>    renumbers the pins in the sequence they appear in the text file of .fp
>    ). Is my obsevation correct? s there any purpose for  which numbers in
>    qoutes such "5" can be used?
> 
>    Do these numbers correspond I find it more cofusing because footprint
>    when opened in PCB doesn't show up pin numbers.

Pins and Pads in PCB have a Name and a Number -- both are Strings, often
both have the same Value.

You may look into my summary, I forget the details myself very quick.

http://www.ssalewski.de/PcbFootprintRef.txt

http://www.ssalewski.de/SFG.html.en




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