DJ Delorie wrote: > You have to edit the footprint. Old style footprints, you have to > edit all the parts of the footprint (the mark is the origin of the > footprint's coordinate system). New style, you edit the Mark() entry. > > Then you have to replace the footprint on the board with a new one. > You can either delete it and let gsch2pcb do its thing, or manually > load the footprint (load element, or use the library) and shift-click > on each old element to replace the old with the new. Lining up the > pads might be tricky if you moved the mark in a non-multiple of your > grid settings.
There are too many things I'm not yet familiar with, and I couldn't fully understand the procedures you suggested, that is I'm lost in the editing part. Anyway, having focused my attention on the marker, I re-read the startup guide in the part where how to create an element is explained, and I figured out I omitted left-clicking on a proper point in the drawing after issuing "cut selection to buffer", perhaps I clicked without minding where I was clicking: that's why in a couple of footprints I designed I had obtained that "square" completely apart from the footprint itself! Now I've created the two footprints from scratch and I've fixed the problem. Many thanks! A. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
