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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:54:32 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB BGA (ball grid array) Package/Footprint
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On 07/21/2013 03:49 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 19.07.2013 00:33, schrieb Lilith Bryant:
>> BTW, if you are thinking about generating a pick-and-place (xy) file for
>> these,  PCB as it stands won't handle it.
>>
>> However, if someone would be so kind as to commit the following patch it
>> will:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/1095516
>
> Did that commit, see comment #3 in the above link. Comment #4 shows
> testsuite failures and as I never used xy files, I have no idea wether
> this change in behaviour is intended/good/harmless/bad. If a user of
> this file format could evaluate this it'd help a lot.

   I've had boards done en masse just recently with xy files generated 
by unpatched PCB.  I didn't use any BGAs on that board, though.  Is the 
issue purely BGA-related?

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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