gEDA-user: changes to 0603 footprint?

[Stuart Brorson]

> Matt Ettus wrote:
>> At some point the 0603 footprint in the CVS version of PCB lost the
>> silkscreen rectangle around it.  Is there any reason it went away?
>> Was this intentional?
>
> yes.  It was brought more inline with IPC footprints instead of the homegrown 
> one that was there.  With an 0603, there really isn't much room for silk. 
> You'll see that silk is there on the larger ones,  I think starting with 
> maybe 1008 or 1206.

FWIW, if you want a silk outline, you can always generate footprints
using my little script called smtgen.pl, available from my website:

http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/

It's a command line utility which outputs PCB footprints for SMT
passives after you specify the various dimensions as command flags.
It draws a silk outline.

Also, John Luciani has SMT passives on his website with silkscreen
outlines, here:

http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html#misc

I'll betcha that there are some SMT passives with silk outlines on
gedasymbols.org too.  I just haven't looked.

Stuart