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[Craig Southeren <craigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/09/2012 5:50 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:

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> Hi Craig,
>
> Is this not something that bitmap2component can achieve for you? You
> can create a footprint from a bitmap and place it down. Generally used
> for logos, but you should be able to scale accurately from a bitmap
> fairly easily I would have thought?

I did look at the bitmap2component tool but it is not suitable for use as a
guiding template when laying out a PCB.

It has a fixed resolution of 150 DPI, which is at the very low end of 
what is needed.
For use as a template, 300DPI is far better.

It is only two colours, which is not suitable when doing board tracing.

It creates a new board element which is not required.

Craig

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