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Subject: Re: [geda-help] use own m4 footprints in pcb
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On 2020-11-21 1:25 p.m., Klaus Rudolph (lts-rudolph AT gmx DOT de) [via 
geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I still search a way how to integrate own m4 footprints to pcb.
>
> I am able to use own m4 footprints in connection with gsch2pcb, but I
> still not able to select a self created footprint in pcb itself from the
> library window.
>
> Any hint is very welcome...
>
> Klaus
>
I guess that you have checked out the available footprints stashed away 
here and there in GEDA and that you only need a few specials.  What I 
did was to use a text editor and then check the mess that I usually 
produced using pcb going back to the text file and correcting until I 
got what pleased me.  It sounds complicated but simple once mastered.  
It looks like John Luciani's footprints are no longer available from my 
Browser links and Stwart's footprint file format docs are no longer 
active.  I wonder where they went?  Hope this helps Ian.