gEDA-user: Updating footprints in place

[John Luciani]

On 10/7/07, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk at familieknaak.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:14:12 -0400, Randall Nortman wrote:
>

>
> > In the
> > worst case, I think some cut & paste with a text editor on the pcb file
> > is probably easier than trying to do it manually in the GUI and get
> > everything lined up properly
>
> I have not resorted to the editor approach yet. My workaround procedure
> looks like this:
>   1) remove the footprint in question
>   2) run gsch2pcb
>   3) load-element-data-to-paste-buffer (like you do after you changed
>      the schematics.
>   4) rotate and move the footprint manually, guided by rats.

This is what I do as well. With components on the grid it actually goes
fairly quickly. If it didn't I would modify my pcb-matrix script to automate
the process ;-)

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