Re: gEDA-user: Footprint mass placement from .csv

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:55 +0200, SZABO Tamas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I need to create a (we call) pinboard (I heard also bed-of-nails) to
>    functional test of out product's PCB.
> 
>    For this purpose I plan to use a script, which gets the coordinates,
>    footprint name, etc. from a suitable formatted file (ex.: some kind of
>    .csv).
> 
>    I just would like to ask, if anyone has a similar thing that they able
>    to share with us?

You should be able to get the output you want from the ".xy" file
created when using the "bom" exporter from PCB.

You might then want to use a script to filter down the results to your
test-point footprints.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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