Re: gEDA-user: two footprint generators on gedasymbols.org

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Cool.  Very timely.  Those will be very useful to me right now, and I do 
> mean immediately. I only see a web interface, are you planning to make 
> the scripts themselves available?

You can check out the gedasymbols.org web site via anonymous cvs, and
have access to all the files therein.

http://www.gedasymbols.org/cvs.html

The scripts are not so useful without a web interface, because of the
need for the diagram to understand the variables, but I suppose it
could be done.  Something like:

$ 2pad -u mm -c 6mil -cl 1 -cw 0.5 -g 50% -ple 20mil -pwe 0 -so 10 -sw 5 > foo.fp

> Eventually, I tweaked [djboxsym] to better suit my own taste in
> symbol graphics.

I planned it that way :-)

> One substantive change: djboxsym makes the pinseq the same as
> pinnum, so symbols that bury Vcc and GND with net attributes get out
> of whack. I added some whack by adding a separate pinseq
> counter.

I never understood the need for pinseq.  What practical differences
does your change make?

And if any of this leads to "symbolic names on PCB pins and pads" I'm
all for it :-)

(i.e. it would be nice to merge a djboxsym symbol with a generic
tsop-14 footprint, and get a customized footprint in pcb)

> Along the same lines, I have a header generator about 95% complete.  It 
> generates schematic symbols for 1xN and 2xN headers, and also generates 
> footprints for through-hole 1xN and 2xN headers with arbitrary pin 
> spacing, 0.100 being the default of course. It needs to be completed and 
> tested a bit, and some people that understand footprints and symbols 
> better than me need to review the output, but I'll be happy to slap a 
> GPL on it and make it available.

Consider adapting my dilpad generator to do through-hole with your
logic.  If we merge those, and make command-line variants of all
three, I think we'd have a good set of utilities.

That leaves sot-style and discrete components.


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