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On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 11:20 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: 
> > To be more precise i want to create a LED-Matrix from a action-script
> > and netlist created by a perl-script. But i can't find the pcb command
> > that loads an element from the library into the paste buffer. 
> 
> You can load an element from a file with:
> 
>     {"Load element data to paste-buffer" PasteBuffer(Clear) Load(ElementTobuffer)}
> 
> The with-file version is LoadFrom instead of Load:
> 
>     LoadFrom(ElementToBuffer,myfootprint.fp)
> 
> To load a footprint from the library, you can use LoadFootprint:
> 
>     LoadFootprint(filename[,refdes,value])

Thank you very much for your quick answer, sir. You helped me a lot!

with best regards

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Johannes Deutsch

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