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From: "W. Ekkehard Blanz" <ekkehard DOT blanz AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] (x)gsch2pcb produces empty layout in pcb
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:47:06 -0700
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Thank you so much for all this help!  I was looking for a small (200 x 500 
mil) flat-mounted through-hole potentiometer footprint but couldn't find one in 
any of these numerous resources.  But thankfully you provided the last link 
too - I think that will get me to where I need to be - I don't mind the little 
extra work...

Following your recommendation, I will stay clear of the m4 stuff.

On Monday, March 19, 2012 01:49:15 AM you wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 17:26 -0700, W. Ekkehard Blanz wrote:
> > Now that I got over this hump, my next step is to read up more on
> > generating footprints to get my odd-ball elements taken care of and see
> > what I got wrong there.
> 
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprints
> 
> Many additional footprints are available here:
> 
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/
> 
> http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html
> 
> For newlib footprints we have this verbose guide:
> 
> http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20070818.pdf
> 
> Or my summary and a generator script
> 
> http://www.ssalewski.de/SFG.html.en
> 
> There are more generators available, footgen script, or graphical online
> generators like
> 
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/2pad.html
> 
> Or you can create footprints from inside pcb program described here
> 
> http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#how_do_i_edit_change_an_existing_foo
> tprint
> 
> I recommend ignoring the legacy m4 footprints for now, there should be
> newlib copies for all of them shipped with pcb.