Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Pad description obsolete?

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

The most up-to-date description of land patterns (that I know of) is at

  http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20050129.pdf

(* jcl *)

On 11/19/05, Lucas Vogelsang <lucasvo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to move all the components on one side, but I went into several
> problems.
>
> 1. Try in PCB, first tried right click, no menu entry....
>    Let's try the "Select" Menu: Move selected elements to other side,
> nothing changes...
>
> 2. Try vim: ah there is a "solderside" flag, let's delete it(%
> s/"solderside"/""/g). Start up PCB, a cool I see descriptions but
> solderpads and components stayed on the solderside.
>
> So, I looked into vim, tried to find out what's wrong with the pad. I
> didn't find anything.
>
> I looked into file format description on
> http://pcb.sourceforge.net/pcb-20050127.html/Element-File.html#Element%
> 20File , and saw:
>
>         Pad  = "Pad(" X1 Y1 X2 Y2 Thickness Name PinNumber Flags ")"
> and:
>
> Pad
>         A pad is very similar to a line except it may not be
>         disconnected from its element and it has an associated name. Is
>         is defined by two end point position, size, name and by some
>         flags.
>                            bit 2:  set if pad was found during a connection search
>                            bit 5:  display the pads name
>                            bit 6:  pad has been selected
>                            bit 7:  pad is located on the solder side
>
>
> When I compared with my pad I found out that there aren't any flags at
> this position:
>
>         Pad[-2000 -6500 1500 -6500 6500 3000 9500 "1" "1" "auto,square"]
>
> also the brackets changed.... ( -> [.
>
> So where is it described??
>
> Lucas
>
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