On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Salewski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for >> > the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use >> > for other components. >> >> You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not much >> in the tools to aid the selection. > > This is true, but we should say that this is in first order a problem > for beginners. I can remember that I struggled with a few footprints for > my first board, I think the problem was about mixing m4 footprints with > parameters and newlib footprints. But this is really a minor problem if > one has some experience. Much more difficult is to ensure that all your > footprints on your PCB board really match with your devices. One has to > do a printout of the PCB board and place all devices on it. Next time, > when you order parts from a different company, you may get other shapes > again... And one has to consider the soldering process, i.e. hand > soldering may need extended pads for DFN devices. >
gschem->pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any other software I regularly use: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg Just hang in there, it makes more sense eventually. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
