gEDA-user: More confustion on PCB

[John Luciani]

On 7/4/06, Mark Allyn <allyn at well.com> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> On adding elements (footprints) I am told that I should use
> VIA's for the pins (if it is a pinned element and not a smt).
> However the section of the document suggests that I do not use
> VIA's.

An alternative to manually creating each part is to use a script.
I have a Perl library and some example scripts at
http://www.luciani.org/geda/geda-index.html
It can be a lot easier to create a family of parts (or complicated parts) with
a script than individually.

(* jcl *)

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