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On Mon, 8 May 2023, Jim Lynch (jim AT k4gvo DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Thanks, that got me there. I am not quite a novice, but just getting back into
> PC design after being away for a few years. I kinda remember gshem and pcb,
> etc. I tried to install those but they seem to want python 2 and I figured the
> tools might not be the way to go, so I went off looking for alternatives.Â
> That's how I got here.
Welcome back! And don't worry, sch-rnd has a steep lurning curve. Just
like gEDA, Ringdove is also optimized for efficient usage (once the user
learned it well), which unfortunately brings in the steep learning curve.
> The video talks about looking up footprints in the PCB tool's layout library.Â
> I looked using pcb-rnd and found the W L brings up the library and I see some
> footprints and some interesting parametric footprints. Is there another way to
> find a footprint?
pcb-rnd is shipped with a small footprint lib, smaller than geda/pcb and
much smaller than kicad or eagle or others. It is because experience
showed that pro users always build their own (local, personal,
company) footprint lib, so the more we ship with the software, the more
unnecessary bloat we put on disk on every installation. But there are
other options available.
Footprint sources:
- for the few footprints we ship, the library window and its preview could
be used for navigation
- we have a collaborative svn+web based resource sharing system, called
edakrill; it has footprints, symbols, scripts. It also includes an import
from gedaymbols.org. It is searchable with parametric search. Edakrill
URL: http://repo.hu/projects/edakrill/
- since Edakrill is an svn repo, you can easily check out the whole thing
with a single command in a shell
- you can also get adakrill directly into your library window in pcb-rnd!
That means pcb-rnd just downloads (and caches locally) the footprint you
want, so if you prefer to browse footprints using the library window, and
you have internet access while hunting for new footprints, you can
configure that easily:
http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?project=pcb-rnd&cmd=show&node=fp_wget
- pcb-rnd can load a lot of file formats, including kicad (tested with up
to version 4 or 5 boards), eagle footprints and boards(xml or binary) and
BXL footprints. Vendors often distribute BXL footprints! So if you find a
footprint anywhere, in any of the formats we load, you can just put it in
your personal footprint lib and it will just work.
There's a generic (non-pcb-rnd related) problem with such footprints, tho,
so I recommend reading this too:
http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?project=pcb-rnd&cmd=show&node=sef
HTH,
Igor2
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