[sdiy] Soldermask for fine pitch TQFP packages

[John Luciani]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
> John Luciani wrote:
>>
>> Can't you script this? I create all of my footprints using scripts. The
>> mask is
>> set pad by pad by the script.
>>
>>
>
> No, I'm using Labcenter Proteus and unfortunately I don't think packages can
> be created using scripts.  And the package library files are binary, so no
> chance to create a hack.  On the plus side it is very quick & easy to create
> new packages, even with 100s of pins.  But no quick way to go through and
> change a property for all pad types in 1 operation.

Time for a new cad package ;-) One with open ASCII file formats!

The Perl library that I use to create all of my footprints in gEDA/PCB is
on my website.

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