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> Making component footprints is the worst

I feel also like the tooling for making footprints is not really that good either. What I'd love to see is full-blown MCAD style drafting system with proper constraints and parametrics etc in a footprint editor. It's bit silly that I have to draw manually the footprints for example different pincount variants for the same standard package instead of making just one base template and driving it with parameters.



this exists, but isn't free. I often use commercial software to generate component footprints


Write some scripts for FreeCAD to export to the right formats expected by EDA software?




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