| ID: | 4471 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 04:10:27 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints |
| in-reply-to: | 4465 from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
| replies: | 4473 from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Majenko Technologies wrote: >Can we use kicad footprints as direct subcircuits in the footprint library, >or can we only import them into a layout then save the footprint to lht? Yes, the footprint library is not in any specific file format, you can put anything in your library that pcb-rnd can load. The only reason we prefer to have lihata subcircuits there because that won't have artificial file-format limitations. However, using footprints coming from random sources may not be as cheap as it first seems, there are fundamental (non-programming) problems beyond data model differences or file format weakness: http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=sef That said, if using a SEF still looks like the best option... If you are doing any serious work, you will most likely end up tweaking each footprint before use and then it's better to convert them to lihata as first step so you don't need to worry about what details you are going to lose because of the weaker file format. Conclusion: technically we can, but in practice, especially in professional use cases, it's much less useful than it sounds. Regards, Igor2
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4471 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
4473 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk>
4476 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
4477 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk>
4480 [pcb-rnd] edakrill and snapeda (was: Re: KiCad footprints) from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
4482 Re: [pcb-rnd] edakrill and snapeda (was: Re: KiCad footprints) from Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com>