On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Stefan Salewski <m...@ssalewski.de> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 23:18 +0800, Steven Michalske wrote: >> This is what I see as a benefit. If you go to a vendor's website you >> will find one or two EDA footprint and symbol files. But nothing that >> was a bell ringer for commonality. It would be nice to have a >> universal starting point. >> >> There is EDIF but I see EDIF as not being so useful, i think they >> tried to do too many things, and failed to get them all correct. As >> one file format to rule them all. >> >> I rather see svg symbol format, svg footprint format, and svg.... format. >> >> Steve > > For svg footprints we have two problems: We always have to convert it to > old gerber format before sending to manufacturer. (Or to another format > which manufacturers support, I think no one currently supports svg.) And > if we scale footprints, we should not to forget to scale our (real word) > components with the same factor. Of course, would be fine: If our case > is too small for our device, just scale the whole thing down. :-) > >
Same exists for out current footprints, they need to be converted to gerbers via pcb. basically svg -> converter -> pcb fp format -> pcb -> gerber --or-- pcb fp -> svg --or-- vendor x -> converter -> svg -> converter -> pcb fp It would be nice to scale the solder masks and the solder paste layers..... for process dependencies. Steve _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
