Chapter 8. Making and Editing Footprints
Footprints provide a means of physically attaching components to your PCB, and they provide electrical connectivity as defined by the netlist generated in Capture. Footprints in PCB Editor are known by several names, including
symbols,
components, and
packages. The PCB Editor library has over 400 symbols, but there will be occasions when you will need to make your own. This purpose of this chapter is to
1. Introduce PCB Editor’s symbol libraries.
2. Discuss the composition of a footprint.
3. Provide a detailed explanation of padstacks.
4. Demonstrate how to create a padstack using the Padstack Designer.
5. Provide footprint design examples.
6. Provide design examples for mechanical symbols and flash symbols. ...
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