On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Mike Bushroe wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I will try the suggestions. I have gotten many > footprints from [1]gedasymbols.org, and I think I have been on > lucian, too. One question is what folder to download the new foot > prints too so that gsch2pcb and pcb can find them. I will look into > the idea of keeping a directory of sym links just for a project. That > would help with simpler names, too.
As I wrote some days ago: My current project file looks like this: ste...@amd64-x2 ~ $ cat /mnt/data/stefan/gEDA/DAD/p1 schematics FPGA_Power.sch FPGA_B0B1.sch FPGA_B2B3.sch RAM.sch ADC.sch TDC.sch Digital_In_A.sch Digital_In_B.sch Digital_In_C.sch InputDividerCh1.sch InputDividerCh2.sch AmplifierCh1.sch AmplifierCh2.sch Controller.sch PowerManager.sch DC_DC_Converter.sch Lin_Regulators.sch Misc.sch AmpCommon.sch output-name b1 skip-m4 elements-dir /usr/local/share/pcb-symbols-jcl_2008-4-25 elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/imported-footprints elements-dir /mnt/data/stefan/gedasymbols/www/user/stefan_salewski/footprints elements-dir /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints I do disable m4 footprints with skip-m4 statement (we can do this because we have newlib copies for all m4 now). Footprint directories have priority order -- when equal names occur multiple times, the later entries in the project file have precedence. So files in /home/stefan/gEDA/custom-footprints overwrite other files for my installation. To access your footprints from PCB program: Use the File/Preferences/Library dialog. Please note: Do not specify the directory of your footprints itself, but the parent directory, as noted in the textbox. So I would give /home/stefan/gEDA _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
