On 10/30/06, Peter Baxendale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another dumb question. I teach a class of undergraduates about ECAD and this year abandoned commercial tools in favour of geda. Students being students, they tend to try things I wouldn't think of doing. Today, a couple of them decided to be creative and on their schematic used names like "CONNpower" and "CONNsignal" for refdes values. Whilst I thought it unconventional and probably inadvisable, I couldn't offhand see why they shouldn't do that.
A reason not to have long refdes values is clutter. Names that are seven and eight characters get difficult to place (legibly) on dense schematics and PCBs. A seven character refdes will probably take up more board area than most of you SMD components. I usually use Jn for connectors. If I want to label a connector "power" or "signal" I will add labels to the schematic and PCB. It is usually easier to place two smaller strings (neatly) than one large one. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
