Mail Archives: geda-help/2018/03/25/23:49:32
On 03/25/2018 07:50 AM, HansFong wrote:
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> In the mean time I used pin headers as a temporary solution and it works. The board is a double layer hobby project in order to
> learn to use gEDA, so it doesn't need to be professional, but still.... I want to get it right.
If you are using a 2 pin header, that is a good approximation of what I would make for a wire jumper symbol and footprint.
I would have two pins contained in symbol and footprint.
So one way forward is to just use the 2 pin header as is and copy a through hole resistor footprint to be the layout for it,
and then learn to customize those. Customizing parts is the normal way to use things to suit your need in FOSS, since there
may not be the exact thing done by anyone yet. Gedasymbols.org is a good place to look and see if anything matches, and
if it is close, copy and modify it. Modify and rename both symbols and footprints.
In your project dir, make a dir called footprints and one called symbols and make sure they are on the path accessible
to the gschem "place component" menu and the pcb "library" menu.
To customize a symbol in gschem is easy, just select the symbol, right clik "down symbol" to edit the symbol and save as to the
yourproject/symbols dir with a new name. Call it yourproject/wirejump.sym. Then see if it can be placed (after a E U update
component -- there is a menu button for that under edit). If you can access and place your new named symbol, next is to edit it
to make it better match what you want.
That could be select and stretch boxes and lines in green or maybe give the E N command to show invisible attributes and rearrange
or rename them. When done with those changes, EN to make invisible text hidden again, the E T click the button translate, then
F S to save it. then right click up edit. Then E U update component. Then place the newly changed component to see how it looks
in your schematic.
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