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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,


I am seeing wires in the Eagle footprints.  Are they like pad fanouts?  Your conversion
seems to ignore them, and I'm wondering if that is a hole or gap in our ability to bring
in board designs?

What is the effect of ignoring those?  Will some footprints simply turn up unconnected in
a BOARD then if the <plain> wires only went to the footprint wires?

Thanks,

Dick


> Dick,
> Feel free to use it however you want.  I wrote it with this project in mind, so if you
> didn't have a go at it I was going to "try" to start it anyways.  In fact its probably
> better for someone with more cpp experience to perform this conversion because my
> conversion would not have turned out so well.
>
> -Dan C
>
> On May 17, 2012 8:43 AM, "Dick Hollenbeck" <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
>     Dan,
>
>     Had a chance to look at your python converter in detail last night.
>
>     This is very nice work.  You obviously have more python experience than I do.
>
>     I am reminded by it how much more powerful python is than C++, measured by "what you can
>     do per line of code".
>
>     Anyways, I will be borrowing much of your Board.py flow in the new C++ EAGLE_PLUGIN,
>     which
>     is made much easier by your nice work.
>
>     Hopefully you will not have bad will towards me since this code will be obsoleting the
>     BOARD portion of your excellent work.
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Dick
>