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Updated fiducials to Surface Mount

evanshultz requested to merge github/fork/evanshultz/fiducial-sm into master

Fixes https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-footprints/issues/1045. Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1799601.

Fiducials do not show up in the POS (pick n place) report because they are Virtual type and to show up there they must be Surface Mount type. This is an apparent regression because, while the type has never been correct in KiCad v3 they appeared in the report (we don't know about v4). At any rate, they should be in the POS report so at least for now this is the solution.

Changes:

  • Made all Surface Mount type
  • Removed old syntax ("~" for pins without number, "(at 0 0)")
  • Simplified keywords
  • Removed duplicated German from description
  • Removed excessive precision
  • Set line widths as specified in KLC
  • Converted double Cu circles to a single one

Some of the copper are drawings and not a pad, but I think the chance of an issue is extremely small so I left it alone. At a later date these could be converted to a custom pad shape if it's important.

Also, some of these footprint names are not intuitive and just poor. But... can't change them now.

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