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symbol/footprint formats ::.was cheap pcbs

2013-11-15 by <indigo_red@...>

I really like the ascii Mentor format for symbols and parts. Altium and others usually import them nicely.


>I appreciate the efforts of the gEDA people, but I've begun to drift away
>from it. What the project really needs is to work toward some sort of
>self-consistent standard for footprints and symbols. Then have a major
>release and jettison the myriads of old formats.
>David Griffith
>dgriffi@...

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.