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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:36:19 -0500
From: John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB footprints - what is the best way to change origin
 location on existing footprint?
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On 08/17/2015 12:50 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> The footprint's origin is not "relative" to anything else, it's what
> everything else is relative to.

OK.  He's probably wondering how it gets defined though.  By what default action when creating footprints,
and how can we tell where it is?

I wonder if there's a way to script changing it to be the centroid of pads, or centroid of pad 1...