Re: gEDA-user: mounting hardware footprints for PCB

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

> So, for this project I'm doing, I wanted a footprint providing a hole for #4 
> hardware, with a pad that would clear the corners of a hex stand-off that is 
> 1/4 inch across the flats.
>
> Of course, being an Old Time Unix Programmer(TM), instead of creating a 
> trivial 4-line text file with vi, before I could stop myself I had created a 
> 300 line C program to generate footprints for hardware.
[ . . . .  snip . . . .]


Your program sounds like it would make an excellent contribution to
the "gedasymbols" web repository!  Why don't you upload it there?

http://www.gedasymbols.org/

I think others would fine it most useful for footprint generation
tasks!

Stuart


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