Thanks for the reply. I was hoping = that someone had already done something in this area. I will have to write = ab awk script.

From: "karl AT aspodata DOT se" <karl AT aspodata DOT se>
To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 7:20 PM
= Subject: Re: [geda-help] g= xyrs with gEDA PCB

Edward Comer:
> Has anyone used gx= yrs with gEDA pcb?
> I am wanting to utilize the fabri= cation service at MicroFab
> (https://macrofab.com/) and= their required XYRS file is very
> different from the= xy file produced by pcb (pcb -x bom --bomfile
> /dev/= null $(TARGET).pcb).

Why don't you as= k macrofab, https://fact= ory.macrofab.com/help/k28u1k
says:
=
Is your favorite EDA tool not on this list? Let u= s know at
support AT macrofab DOT n= et. We're continuously working on instructions
= for new programs, and we'd be happy to prioritize your tool.

BTW, the format of their xyrs files is indicated at= the bottom of
that page.

Looking at the doc, and a pcb xy file, it seems to be a simple
permutation of fields, and filling out fields which pcb's xy fi= le
doesn't provide like:

Type     Surface or Through Hole     1/= SMT/SMD for SMD, 2 for PTH
X-Size     X D= imension of the Part (mils)     Size of the Package, Measure= d By the Pad Footprint
Y-Size     Y Dimen= sion of the Part (mils)     Size of the Package, Measured By= the Pad Footprint

One could make a pr= ogram that checks a given fotprint for pins, which
shoul= d indicate a 2 in the type column, and to find the bounding box of
all pins and pads in the footprint. I don't know one who does it= though.
Also, you have to be careful to use only footpri= nts that have the "righ"
rotation, whatever that is.

The permutations could be done with (perha= ps an awk script would be
more appropiate here):

$ cat tt.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl= -w

use strict;

while(<>) {
if (!m/^#/= ) {
    chomp;
&nb= sp; my @fld =3D split(/,/);
    my @= out =3D (@fld[0,3,4,5,6], 1, 0, 0, @fld[2,1], 0);
&= nbsp; $_ =3D join("\t", @out) . "\n";
= }
print;
}
$ head arm_can_test.xy
# PcbXY Version 1.0
# Date: Tue 06 Jun 2017 10:35:50 PM GMT UTC
# A= uthor: Karl Hammar
# Title: arm_can_test - PCB X-Y
# RefDes, Description, Value, X, Y, rotation, top/bottom
# X,Y in mm. rotation in degrees.
# ---= -----------------------------------------
_R2,"m1608_a.fp= ","10k",108.5000,78.00,90,bottom
_C6,"m2012_a.fp","1u",71= .9500,90.50,180,top
_C10,"m2012_a.fp","100n",89.0000,99.0= 5,270,top
$ ./tt.pl arm_can_test.xy | head
# PcbXY Version 1.0
# Date: Tue 06 Jun 2017 10:35:50 = PM GMT UTC
# Author: Karl Hammar
# Titl= e: arm_can_test - PCB X-Y
# RefDes, Description, Value, X= , Y, rotation, top/bottom
# X,Y in mm. rotation in = degrees.
# --------------------------------------------_R2 108.5000 78.0= 0 90 bottom 1 0 = 0 "10k" "m1608_a.fp" &nbs= p; 0
_C6 71.9500 90.50 180 &nb= sp; top 1 0 0 = ; "1u" "m2012_a.fp" 0
_C10 89.0000 99.05 270 top &n= bsp; 1 0 0 = "100n" "m2012_a.fp" 0
$

Perhaps you need to remove the citation marks (").

> Exactly how to use gxyrs is not obvious, at least not to me.= The
> man pages are rather terse, to say the lea= st.
> Any help would be appreciated.

Looking through the man page, it seems that gxyrs= doesn't help you
with the info that is missing from pcb'= s xy file, you have to provide
that by some other means.<= br clear=3D"none">
And it doesn't seem to help much with = the permutations, but after you
have done the permutation= s, there seems to be commands which gives you
the ability= to alter specific lines/columns matching some rules.
I guess you are better off editing the file after permutati= ng it in
a spreadsheet or an editor.
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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