Re: gEDA-user: Newbiw...with a question *shocker*

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:47:57 -0400, Lombardi, Robert wrote:

> Rather than placing these things one by one i was wondering if there
> might be a way to automate the process using the Command Entry line?

There is no real scripting available in pcb. It is on the wish list of 
many people, though.

What I would do is:

1) place a single LED at some outstanding position, say at (100, 100)

2) open the *.pcb file in a text editor

3) Find the footprint of the LED. It will be some Element Tag near the 
end of the file.

4) Look up the meaning of the parameters in Stuarts description of the 
pcb format 
(page 14 of http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20070818.pdf)

5) Do some copy-paste magic with your preferred scripting tool (awk, 
perl, eamacs), that allows you to change the coordinates of the 
footprints with each copy.

6) reload in pcb.
 

> I was thinking some kind of a batch file using "Select(ElementByName,
> D1) and then a "MoveObject(x,y)".

The particular ability to do a multi-copy of objects is on my wishlist 
for pcb too...

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