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I read the title of the article and thought, oh, but of course! You put your SMD components on a flatbed scanner and the software identifies the legs and create
by davidzweig 9y ago
I read the title of the article and thought, oh, but of course! You put your SMD components on a flatbed scanner and the software identifies the legs and creates the correct footprint automatically. Ah. Not that. :-)
- natashabaker 9y agoThat would be very cool! Actually one of our users did something similar =) https://jasiek.me/2016/09/29/creating-footprints-from-actual-parts-in-kicad.html https://jasiek.me/2016/09/29/creating-footprints-from-actual... The good news is that we've already done the work to extract pin dimensions, and then applied IPC calculations to them to make the footprint. So for standard ICs it's not necessary.
- davidzweig 9y agoIt's a nice project you have, it has saved me a lot of time.