Re: gEDA-user: How do I really design footprint with pcb?

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 18:42 -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, I have no idea about your intention. Maybe DJ has, I have seen he
> > has responded already. Maybe you can make a picture? If making
> > footprints is your problem: For that we have many helpful tools.
> 
> "many helpful tools" means that everybody gets to write a footprint
> generator in their own favorite scripting language.
> 
> There are no helpful GUI tools, only the unhelpful tool of pcb itself.
>  Footprint generation seems like a GUI task to me, but I'm sure others
> will disagree.
> 

This is not really true. We have different non-GUI like footgen and my
sfg, web-based ones like DJ's, the new one with Java-GUI recently
mentioned in dev mailing list. And of course we can draw footprints in
PCB program, I have never done that, Kai-Martin has, and he has
explained ho to do it.




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