Re: gEDA-user: missing pcb footprints.

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:48 -0700, Mike Bushroe wrote:

>       Is there any plan to add a footprint library to gschem similar to
>    the component library, or the foot print library function in pcb?
>    Mike
> 

This was discussed a lot on this mailing list -- you may search the
archives.

One "problem" is, that gschem is not PCB centric. gschem -> PCB is one
workflow, among many others, i.e. spice.

A PCB footprint browser or previewer for gschem may not hurt, but there
will not be too much benefit. For people familiar with gEDA/PCB finding
footprints is no problem. (Checking that footprints fit to parts is much
more work -- making printout of layout and putting parts on footprints.)

You may try something like

stefan@AMD64-X2 ~ $ locate -i qfp |grep 64

If unsure, load footprint in PCB for inspection.

And see

http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html

and

http://www.gedasymbols.org/




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