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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] parametric footprint: dimensions, qf(),
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:42 PM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've implemented two major features in the parametric footprint support in
>>> pcb-rnd (and in the online version).
>>>
>>> The preview tool, fp2anim, can display dimensions on the annotation layer.
>>> This is useful for checking whether a footprint really matches the
>>> datasheet. Details:
>>> http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/devlog/20150820a_dimensions.html
>>>
>>> The more important feature is a new class of footprints. There is a low
>>> level, generic, but complicated to use qf() which should be able to generate
>>> anything that has evenly spaced pads around a rectange.
>>>
>>> There are frontends to qf(), called qfn(), tqfp() and lqfp(). These
>>> generators are very easy to use: they have only a few parameters, those that
>>> are usually specified among the first lines of a package datasheet. They
>>> can't handle special cases, but can safely generate any of the usual
>>> QFN/TFQP footprints. Details:
>>> http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/devlog/20150820b_qf.html
>>>
>>> The online version of the parametric footprint generator is accessible at
>>> http://igor2.repo.hu/cgi-bin/pcblib-param.cgi
>>>
>>> The source is in svn: svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk/pcblib/parametric
>>>
>>> Comments, bugreports, feature requests are welcome.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Igor2
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Random thought. A plugin in gEDA that lets you declare a single box
>
> Err I meant option to the footprint generator.
>

Good idea. Could you please send me a few of your static footprints as a 
reference?

TIA,

Igor2