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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:47:35 -0800
From: Traylor Roger  <traylor AT eecs DOT oregonstate DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] footprint errors in 20110918 but not 20100929
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Stephen,
 Awesome. That fixed it. Thank you so much.
  
 Who do I inform of the issue?  It seems that others are 
 already onto it.

 Thanks for the hints. I'll incorporate those too.

 Roger
 

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 07:43:06AM +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> The parser doesn't like lines 44-47 because of the characters ".50mm".
>  Change all occurrences of that to "0.50mm" and it loads fine.
> You may want to log a bug report that our parser doesn't correctly
> parse numbers starting with a decimal point.
> 
> BTW, I notice that you leave the "name" field blank.   I find it quite
> helpful to name the pins.  In PCB you can press the "d" key to view
> the pin numbers of an element and then use "View->[ ]Enable pinout
> shows number" menu toggle to change views between numbers and names -
> very helpful at times.  As an example, here's a part I recently made:
> 
> Element["" "DCJACK" "CN1" "CUI-PJ-047BH" 0mm 0mm 0mm -6mm 0 100 ""]
> (
> 	Pin[+2.9mm -3.7mm 2.9mm 2000 3.1mm 2.5mm "Shd" "0" ""]
> 	Pin[+2.9mm +3.7mm 2.9mm 2000 3.1mm 2.5mm "Shd" "0" ""]
> 
> 	Pin[+4mm 0mm 0 2000 0 2.4mm "" "Mnt" "hole"]
> 
> 	Pin[+10.3mm -3.3mm 2.6mm 2000 2.8mm 2.2mm "Sw" "3" ""]
> 	Pin[+10.3mm +3.3mm 2.6mm 2000 2.8mm 2.2mm "Pin" "1" ""]
> 	Pin[+8.1mm 0mm 2.6mm 2000 2.8mm 2.2mm "Slv" "2" ""]
> 
> 	ElementLine [0 -3.7mm 0 +3.7mm 1000]
> )
> 
> I also find the string based flags much easier to use than the
> hexadecimal (eg "hole" instead of 0x00000xyz, where x y and z are
> digits I can't remember)
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Ecob
> Silicon On Inspiration
> Sydney Australia
> www.sioi.com.au
> $49 Spartan 6 board with 32MB DDR DRAM ?
> http://www.sioi.com.au/shop/product_info.php/products_id/47