After a few days of hacking, I am able to auto-generate this jig to help soldering those 17 berg headers for my AtiVEGA board! Basically I should be able to lay the jig on my soldering table, insert the through hole parts, place the PCB and solder away!

I've written the tool in a reasonably generic manner - now it's a matter of cleaning up and parameterizing the code and then anyone can make one for their board! To that end, I am opening and checking against open source and community boards. The more funkier the board outline, the more inclined I am to test it !

There are many parameters, so it makes sense to use a configuration file rather than many command line parameters.   That's my TODO for the next few days. I also have to print the jig next, and see if any tweaks to the parameters are needed.