Re: gEDA-user: PCB not saving silkscreen when I try to make footprints

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:04 -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using PCB to make footprints and I'm having a problem with PCB
> not saving the silkscreen along with the pins. Here is my proceedure
> for making the footprints.
> 
> 1. Draw the silkscreen and pins (drawn with vias in the component layer)
> 2. Select all objects
> 3. Copy selection to buffer
> 4. Convert buffer to element
> 5. Save buffer elements to file
> 
> When i load the foorprint in PCB, the silkscreen is gone and all that
> remains is the pins.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?

Do you carefully follow the instructions from pcb manual, section
"Creating Newlib Footprints" ?

For most people this seems to work fine.

I myself never did this, I used footgen.py in the past, and now my
sfg.rb generator.

It may be useful to specify your pcb version.




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