Re: gEDA-user: Assembly drawing

[timecop <timecop@xxxxxxxxx>]

um, you should have component refdes near the component on the silk level.
if you have some more complicated assembly-related instructions
(outline of big component, keep-out area, etc) they should go in
assembly layer.

why do you have refdes outside of the board from beginning?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM, andrew whyte <ajwhyte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ÂIt seems that there must be a more elegant way of doing what I'm
> trying to do in PCB. ÂSo I thought I'd ask.
>
> ÂI have a layout, that I have moved component idents away from the
> components, (for simplicity & space), Âthe manufacturer still needs to
> know which component to put where and has asked for an assembly
> drawing. ÂIf I export PCB to a postscript file, I get good assembly
> drawings, but the position of the idents is still off board.
>
> ÂI can reset the offsets of the idents manually, but this means
> trawling the .pcb file in a text editor (and let's assume that my
> regular expression skills aren't hot enough to automate that). Anyway,
> this simply puts the ident at the origin of the component which is
> usually the middle, I'd like to have each ident centered on the
> component and aligned with it (like when they are first imported from
> gsch2pcb).
>
> ÂIs there an easier way to generate a document that will tell my
> manufacturer which footprint is which component?
>
> ÂThanks for your interest.
>
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