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From: Carlos Moreno <moreno+geda-help AT mochima DOT com>
Subject: [geda-help] gSchem footprint attribute
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:51:33 -0500
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Hi,

I'm wondering whether there's a "nice/clean" solution for
this problem.

I'm using a crystal that has four pins --- two of them are
GND  (e.g., http://www.abracon.com/Resonators/abm3b.pdf)

I created the footprint with PCB Designer (actually, started
with PCB designer, but then adjusted everything with a
text editor)

In gSchem, I include a crystal from the built-in list of
components;  I manually assign it the footprint that I
created.  The pins don't match. (two issues:  (1) there
are four pins, two of which should be connected to GND,
but the symbol has two pins only;  and (2) the crystal
is between pins 1 and 3;  gschem by default assumes
it would go between pins 1 and 2)

What's a good way to handle this?  (preferably without
designing a custom symbol with four pins for the crystal)

Note:  I solved it for the time being, but with what I think
is a rather ugly hack  (manually editing both the footprint
file and the PCB file after having imported the schematic)

Thanks,
Carlos
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