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On 07/09/2014 10:04 AM, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> Dave Curtis wrote:
>>
>> A friend across town has been using KiCad for a while, and since we 
>> are interested in building the same sorts of things we try to share 
>> what we can in terms of tools and designs.  Right now, we are hot on 
>> the "grand, unified, footprint generator script" problem.   We would 
>> like to come up with a single front-end that can create footprints 
>> for both pcb and KiCad so that we could share footprints more 
>> easily.  So... I've been looking at the KiCad footprint file format 
>> and their new one can handle a lot of things that are somewhat vexing 
>> in pcb -- although I'm not too hot on the S-expression idea overall.  
>> Anyway, KiCad seems to leave some things out that my friend and I 
>> have been talking about -- like keep-outs.
>>
>> So the point of the above paragraph is, yes, I can suggest some 
>> extensions, and now would be a good time to capture that since I am 
>> trying to wrap my head around the issues right now.  What I can do:
>>
>> 1. write up some straw-man spec extensions
>> 2. update the "footprint creation for.." document with what ever 
>> settles out of that.
>>
>> What I can not do:
>>
>> Investigate the feasibility of implementing the extensions.  I simply 
>> don't know the code well enough.
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Please have a look at:
>
> https://github.com/bert/fped
>
> It was a parametric footprint editor just for generating KiCad 
> footprint libraries until I added code for generating pcb footprints.
>
> I got stuck at the point of separating the individual footprints for 
> pcb (for KiCad a library of concatenated footprints is generated).
Not with the new format.
>
> Please give it a test drive, patches are welcome :)
I'll take a look at it.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bert Timmerman.
>