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Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 01:56:43 +0200
From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Deans-T footprint
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"Jan Kasprzak (kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz) schrieb am 10. May 2020:

> does anybody have footprints for Deans-T connectors[1] for geda/pcb?

If I remember correctly, the Dean-T connectors are actually series
AM-1015 by the east Asian company AMASS.

Are you totally invested in the T connectors? If not, I'd propose the
slightly more modern XT60 series by the same manufacturer as an
alternative. These seem to be quite popular with RC projects these days.
Prices and capabilities seem fairly similar.

The printed circuit versions of xt60 use round holes rather than slots.=20


> Even better, I am thinking about side-mounted Deans-T (on the border
> of the PCB board), where the positive side (the horizontal part of the
> "T") would be in the U-shaped slot, and the negative side (the
> vertical part of the "T") would lay on the pad on one side of the
> printed circuit board.

The xt60 line of products  includes regular side mounted versions.=20

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> If not - can somebody guide me how to create it? I searched
> gedasymbols.org, but didn't found it there.

There are different approaches to footprint creation.

1) use a regular text editor to write a file in the format understood by
pcb. This route is described in this very detailed manual:
 http://wiki.geda-project.org/_media/geda:land_patterns_20070818.pdf

2) write a script in your favourite language to generate the footprint
file. This footprint generator approach is particularly useful if you
want to produce a large range of similar footprints.

2a) use a footprint generator written by somebody else.

3) use the GUI of pcb itself. You'd compose the footprint from lines and
pads. Then copy these elements to buffer and apply=20
	Buffer =E2=86=92 convert_buffer_to_element
  Insert the footprint on canvas with a left-mouse click.
  Add pin numbers and move the footprint string to a proper place. Check
  and potentially change clearance of solder mask.
  Copy the footprint to buffer and do
	Buffer =E2=86=92 Save_buffer_elements_to_file
This GUI approach is more tuned to deal with "interesting" shapes that
connectors tend to ask for.
For my own work-flow I added a few scripts to streamline the GUI
approach. (set the clearance, set the line width, extract all footprints
from a sheet)

Hope, that gets you going,

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