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Not an EE Am I correct that you replace this lengthy process? https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/designing-pcbs-smd-footprints https://learn.sparkfun.com/tuto
by zbjornson 10y ago
Not an EE Am I correct that you replace this lengthy process? https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/designing-pcbs-smd-footprints https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/designing-pcbs-smd-foot...
- natashabaker 10y agoYes! That's our first area of focus!
- foldr 10y agoIt's not really as lengthy as all that for small parts. Eagle has a horrible interface, but with a bit of practice it can be done quite quickly.
- StavrosK 10y agoThat is the process, yes, but it's not really that lengthy. You can usually just add the first pin and then copy/paste the rest in the row really quickly.
- rfrank 10y agoYeah, for the most part library stuff is quick. Some tools let you pattern place the pins and plop them all down at once. High pin count parts like FPGAs and connectors with weird footprints are the big time sinks.
- akiselev 10y agoWeird footprints are really the only time consuming part with modern EDA software. Tools like Altium have templates, footprint generators, and features for bulk editing symbols and footprints so all you do is create a quick Excel spreadsheet with pin number and formulas for x and y (especially easy for FPGAs and processors with pins in a grid). You copy paste that spreadsheet into Altium and you're done. It takes me less than 10 minutes to manually draw a footprint for a 500+ pin processor this way.
- rfrank 10y agoYeah, when I was doing library stuff I used Mentor Expedition which has all kinds of stuff for speeding up footprint creation. Symbols can be time consuming for the various XXGAs because some of our customers have fairly... elaborate standards for visual appearance, pin locations, etc.