Re: gEDA-user: missing pcb footprints.

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:48 -0700, Mike Bushroe wrote:
> I have been having a lot of trouble with this too. gschem does not
>    have a library search routine for foot prints, and so I often create
>    schematics that gsch2pcb fails to find many of the foot prints and I
>    have to struggle to find the foot prints, sometimes type in huge long
>    names that are easy to get wrong, and try to figure which folders both
>    gsch2pcb and pcb can find the foot prints in.
>       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

PCB _has_ a footprint library function (unless you're using an old
version!)

http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2008/01/pcb-library-browser.html

Just keep a copy of PCB open whilst you're making your schematics, and
you're not much more than an alt-tab from finding the right name.




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