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On 03/07/2016 08:13 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Erich Heinzle  wrote:
>
>> the translate2geda utility has addressed this problem of odd pin spacing
>> by being able to generate a symbol and a new bounding box from a list of
>> pins with specified spacing, if told to do so (WIP).
>>
>> Once I roll the kicad converter code into translate2geda
> Great job, already!
> I am looking forward to the spree of symbol (and footprint?) choices that 
> will result from a working conversion path.
>

... and workflow nightmares :D (no, really, I had to redo a schematic
because I needed some footprints, found Erich's kicad converted stuff on
gedasymbols, and then I thought "let's get all of gedasymbols and add it
to the component library, what could possibly go wrong?")

some curation will be needed somewhere, and things will still need
manual tweaking to integrate nicely, because conventions may differ: for
instance, those converted nixie footprints have alphanumeric pin names
(A, LHDP, RHDP), while the convention I was aware of is pin name == pin
number (so my symbol's pins didn't match up with footprint pins);
however, changing the footprint pin names was easy, I very much prefer
this to drawing the thing from scratch :)

another example of clashing conventions is an Arduino nano symbol (I
think also from Erich), which has pins very tightly packed and
everything aligned at 25 grid units, not 100 like regular symbols.