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Thanks, that got me there.  I am not quite a novice, but just getting 
back into PC design after being away for a few years.  I kinda remember 
gshem and pcb, etc.  I tried to install those but they seem to want 
python 2 and I figured the tools might not be the way to go, so I went 
off looking for alternatives.  That's how I got here.

The video talks about looking up footprints in the PCB tool's layout 
library.  I looked using pcb-rnd and found the W L brings up the library 
and I see some footprints and some interesting parametric footprints.  
Is there another way to find a footprint?

Thanks,

Jim.

On 5/7/23 13:52, grnd AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Window menu, library. Or press w then l (we write that {w l} for short).
> This opens the library window. Either navigate the tree, or enter
> something, like resistor, in the bottol left filter. Select a symbol from
> the tree on the left side, it gets copied into the buffer. Place it on the
> sheet. It's the same process as placing footprints in pcb-rnd.
>
> I really recommend watching at least the 'getting started' tutorial video.
> You can try to explore and figure these things without the tutoral, but it
> takes longer than watching the video.