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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:01:04 -0400
From: Enoch H Wexler <emc DOT consultants AT gmail DOT com>
Organization: Energy Measurement & Control
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] I've updated footgen to work with nanometer base
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Can't we have a git "contrib" subdir for such useful things developing?

Thanks, Enoch.

On 07/30/2012 10:42 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote:
> For those of you who use Darrell Harmon's very useful "footgen"
> script, here's an updated version.
> The changes are:
> 
> # Changed fundamental units from centimils to nanometers
> 
> # Changed flags from integers to strings (as per newer format)
> 
> # Changed a few hard coded distances from values such as
> # 1000, 4000 or 3940 (centimils) to 1000000nm.  These hard
> # coded distances are still ugly, but now at least they are
> # metric ugly instead of imperial ugly
> 
> I haven't had time to carefully check all of the generated footprints,
> only the ones I use.
> Some of the footprints will be visibly different because of the
> changes to hard coded distances in the script.
> It would be nice if hard coded distances were removed, if you are
> affected by the changes to them then perhaps you can tackle that task:)
> 
> Stephen Ecob
> Silicon On Inspiration
> Sydney Australia
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