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

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 20:05 +0200, Tamas Szabo wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Well, actually I need the opposite direction. I have all the coordinates 
>   (currently a Blu-ray player's mainboard) and I need to insert the 
> specified footprint(s) to the existing PCB at the given coordinates.
> 
> I already written an simple perl script which changes NAME, MX and MY in 
> the footprint and put it into a text file. Then I 'cat' it to the end of 
> the PCB file. It was a quick & dirty solution, but it suits my needs. 
> Well, if someone interested in, I gladly share it - although don't think 
> it is production ready.
> 
> /sza2

Ok, sorry - must have misread your original post. Glad you have a
solution which worked out... text file-formats are great, aren't they!


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Peter Clifton

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Engineering Department,
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