Welcome to gedasymbols.org. This website is a repository for symbols, footprints and documentation that are useful to anyone using the GPL schematic creation program gschem or the GPL pcb layout program PCB. The misson of gedasymbols.org is to increase the usage of the gEDA suite of tools by distributing symbols and footprints for these programs, as well as other third-party add-ons and tools.

Symbols and Footprints and Stuff

Ok, so the name of the site is "gedasymbols", so where's the symbols? Well, you could browse the official libraries listed below, or use the search engine, or you can visit the list of contributors (also in the right-hand sidebar) to see what they've uploaded, or even just download the whole site via CVS. Each contributor can upload symbols, footprints, tools, and/or documentation.

• Official PCB footprints

External Links

• The gEDA home page where you'll find schematic capture tools.
• The PCB home page where you'll find the PCB layout tool.
• The gEDA/gaf documentation has the official symbol creation guide, master attributes list, and symbol file format spec.
• PCB File Format documentation
• Bill Wilson's tutorial on using gschem with pcb is here, wikified.
• John Luciani's footprint page and geda page
• Tragesym symbol creator.
• David Weber's Online Symbol Creation Tool (mksym)
• Stuart's gEDA page documents the PCB footprint file format.
• The gEDA wiki has a page on symbol creation and one on footprint creation.

Contributing

There are many ways to contribute to gedasymbols.org. First off, letting us know of any problems with the site, or ideas to make it more useful, are always appreciated. You can also contact one of the people already contributing here and ask them if they want help with symbols or footprints (but please don't expect them to just "do it for you"). Also, you can ask for a CVS account so that you can create your own area here which would let you upload and manage your own symbols and footprints.