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On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Bernhard Kraft (bkraf0j9 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Just tried it out now. Seems to work. I just wonder right now whether I should:
> a) Define a single "matrix-pin.fp" element and for example add 16
> symbols to a schematic for a 4x4 matrix
> b) Write a generator script for generating x-by-y pin matrixes with
> configurable pin spacing.
>
> I guess solution a) will be more versatile but I will become bored of
> placing those 16 pins then ...

In case you go manual....

You could place 4 single pins manually (2x2), then copy the whole 
block to place 3 more times and you ahve 4x4; repeat, and with 3 more 
copies you have 8x8, etc. If you chose the copy origin point at the -1;-1 
grid point relative, it's pretty fast.

If it's just a switch board with no components and only 
vertical/horizontal lines on the two sides, I wouldn't make schematics, 
just do it all in PCB.

I'd write a script only if I needed a series of boards with different 
geometries.