Re: gEDA-user: paid help?

[Anthony Shanks <yamazakir2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Didn't bother with any kind of scripted footprint generator as I
wanted to know exactly what the file format was for footprints. Once I
discovered how easy it was I felt it wasn't worth fighting with a
script that may or may not do what i needed to do. It's been working
fine for me and I haven't had any problems with footprints thus far
and I spent very little time making footprints compared with the rest
of the layout process.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:41 -0700, Anthony Shanks wrote:
>> In my opinion it's worth spending an hour going over the footprint
>> file format and just making your footprints in an ASCII editor. Once
>> you know the file format it's very fast (< 10 min per footprint on
>> average) and you get the exact dimensions you need specified by the
>> datasheet. Making footprints with this method in my opinion is easier
>> and faster than most closed source tools I have used.
>>
>
> Do you really work on the *.fp files with your text editor?
>
> In early days I have done some fine tuning of existing footprints this
> way -- it was no fun.
>
> I really suggest using an generator script like footgen.py, sfg.rb,
> scripts from  John Luciani or your own. That makes live much easier, you
> can generate whole families of footprints, and you can modify them in a
> few seconds.
>
>
>
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