gEDA-user: solder pads showing on wrong side of board.

[John Luciani]

On 6/17/06, David Froseth <dfro at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>         I have run into a snag trying to use the symbols that John Luciani has
> shared.  I really like how he has created the oval shaped solder pads.
> However, they are printing on the front side of my layout.
> Only the round pin/pads are showing on the back side.

This is a mistake in my footprints. There is only a single pad (component side)
over the pin when there should be two pads (component and solder side).
I believe I corrected my Perl library but never regenerated the footprints that
use the rounded pads.

If you are only using a few footprints you can correct them using
EMACS by copying
PAD lines and changing a flag in the copied line. For example ---

In DIP-14-300 the pin 1 pad line looks like this ---

Pad[-16500 -30000 -13500 -30000 6000 2000 8000 "" "1" 0x0800]

Insert a line after the pin one pad line that looks like this

Pad[-16500 -30000 -13500 -30000 6000 2000 8000 "" "1" 0x0880]

the 0x80 flag adds a pad to the solder side.

Please send me a list of the footprint names where you have found the problem
and I will get them fixed.

Sorry for the mixup.

(* jcl *)


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