Hello!

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssale= wski.de> wrote:

Please try to turn on Eng= lish spell checking in your email client, that
makes it easier for us to read your postings -- please note not all of

Excuse me, I was writing in text editor which has spell c= hecking turned off by default. My fault, sorry.
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Thermals are not defined in footprints -- for pins and vias we use the
thermal tool called THRM to make a thermal to the surrounding copper
polygon. For pads we have to draw a trace to the copper polygon --

I'm not sure about correct naming so one more question. So= it is possible to add thermals (by THRM tool) only to round shaped pin pad= s, not for e.g. oval/square ones?

Should I remember anything else to define pin which will work wi= th that THRM tool to add thermals?=C2=A0

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Unfortunately that describes not the latest format -- I think we can use units like nm in footprint definition now, I will try to adapt that text when I have some spare time...

So it is possible to us= e nanometers? The footprint i like to create is metric sized so using metri= c units will give me =E2=80=9Enice numbers=E2=80=9D. I'm trying to goog= le about that but found only some postings from mailing list about patch ad= ded to the repository. Here: http://wiki.geda-project.or= g/geda:pcb-quick_reference#pcb_units i found something about metric uni= ts but cannot find any information how can I define metric units in footpri= nt file.

I know only about using mils and centymils defined by type of br= acket in command.

BTW if metric scale/nanometer unit is new h= ere. What is the oldest release which is using it. The one I have here is:<= br> =C2=A0$ pcb --version
PCB version 20110918

is it ok? I kno= w that there is newer one but it is not in ubuntu repository yet. I have ne= wer one in my desktop computer at home.

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Older footprints where created by m4 scripts with parameters indeed, but most people favorite the so called newlib footprints now, which are self contained and do not depend on m4 macro processor. A lot of tools exist
to create footprints, some use textual description, some have graphical
front-ends.

:( it was IMO nice idea to create one file= for e.g. that screw terminal connector which can be used for all of them. = OK it's not possible so I'll try to write perl script to generate i= t for any number of pins.

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