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[Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:25:04 -0600
Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > 1) Footprints inside a BOARD.
> >
> > 2) Footprints inside a library.
> >
> > 3) Footprints exported.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1)-> they can be on F.Cu or B.Cu layers either.
> >
> >
> > 2)-> Should always be represented in a "normalized" form.  a) no
> > rotation, b) (at 0 0), c)....
> 
> oops,
> always on F.Cu for 2)
> 
> >
> >
> > 3)-> Only the source code knows for sure, but it would be nice to
> > have this one equal 2) so you could simply copy the file into an
> > s-expression (i.e. KICAD PLUGIN) library path.
> >
> >
> 
> 

Dick, thanks for the clarification and your efforts on KiCad.

/Martijn