Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/07/09/17:46:30
On 07/09/2014 10:04 AM, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> Dave Curtis wrote:
>>
>> A friend across town has been using KiCad for a while, and since we
>> are interested in building the same sorts of things we try to share
>> what we can in terms of tools and designs. Right now, we are hot on
>> the "grand, unified, footprint generator script" problem. We would
>> like to come up with a single front-end that can create footprints
>> for both pcb and KiCad so that we could share footprints more
>> easily. So... I've been looking at the KiCad footprint file format
>> and their new one can handle a lot of things that are somewhat vexing
>> in pcb -- although I'm not too hot on the S-expression idea overall.
>> Anyway, KiCad seems to leave some things out that my friend and I
>> have been talking about -- like keep-outs.
>>
>> So the point of the above paragraph is, yes, I can suggest some
>> extensions, and now would be a good time to capture that since I am
>> trying to wrap my head around the issues right now. What I can do:
>>
>> 1. write up some straw-man spec extensions
>> 2. update the "footprint creation for.." document with what ever
>> settles out of that.
>>
>> What I can not do:
>>
>> Investigate the feasibility of implementing the extensions. I simply
>> don't know the code well enough.
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Please have a look at:
>
> https://github.com/bert/fped
>
> It was a parametric footprint editor just for generating KiCad
> footprint libraries until I added code for generating pcb footprints.
>
> I got stuck at the point of separating the individual footprints for
> pcb (for KiCad a library of concatenated footprints is generated).
Not with the new format.
>
> Please give it a test drive, patches are welcome :)
I'll take a look at it.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bert Timmerman.
>
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