Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/01/30/16:59:19
On 01/30/2012 12:12 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote:
>> Is it possible to place a via using an action rather than the
>> mouse? I have a number of vias I need to place at the same
>> relative offset to different pads. At the moment I'm marking
>> (Ctrl-M) each pad and placing a via with the mouse at the correct
>> offset, which is somewhat laborious. Ideally I'd like to mark the
>> pad then do something like
>>
>> :PlaceVia(CurrentMark, +x, +y)
>>
>> I've searched the documented actions but, unless I've missed
>> something, I can't see anything suitable.
>
> This sort of feature would be REALLY helpful for me in designing
> footprints, if it were more general, such as allowing me to request
> a surface-mount pad be placed at a certain location.
>
> I'm often torn between using the pcb GUI to draw footprints or
> making the footprint by hand in the .fp file format. I think the
> GUI should be more helpful in allowing the user to be VERY SPECIFIC
> when drawing a footprint, thus arriving at a solution with the best
> of the GUI and the best of the direct-input text file format.
This would actually be a great feature. It's a time-proven way of
doing this sort of thing. AutoCAD, for example, supports doing exactly
this, and everyone I know who uses AutoCAD *always* uses the command
line to specify placement-critical points.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
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