gEDA-dev: GSoC 2008

[Sven Lemke]

Hey Bert,

I am sorry, but I was not aware that you already started a project for a
footprint "generator". ;) I think your tool is a very good start and I
agree with you that an "editor" is not needed at the moment.

Do you have access to a copy of the IPC-7351 specifications? Otherwise I
am willing to spend the $100 on it if I'm accepted for GSoC.

Kind regards,
Sven


Bert Timmerman wrote:

> Have a look at:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/pcb-fpw.html
> 
> and see if this is what you have in mind :)
> 
> It's an ongoing work of me and is still pretty alpha (currently just
> released version 20080328-0.0.4).
> 
> I'm thinking of opening a git repository somewhere, so other people can
> participate in the fun.
> 
> The ultimate goal is get this attempt into a serious plug-in/importer
> for pcb (using dbus for IPC to and from pcb).
> 
> One other thing: IMO this tool is not going to be a footprint editor for
> existing footprints, it's supposed to become a tool to generate a
> footprint on the fly and inserting the footprint into pcb the same way
> "Load element data to paste buffer" does.
> 
> The CLI is there to batch process huge amounts of footprints.