On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:23 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > IOW, I think that in the general case it isn't possible to pick a symbol > independent of its package. True, it works for a lot of devices, but > not all of them... >
Currently we pick symbols for our gschem schematics. I have to admit that I am not really happy with this approach. When we make a schematic, we are thinking of devices first... So maybe we should 1. Pick a device (Resistor, Diode, Transistor, OpAmp, ...) 2. Pick graphical representation of device 3. Pick available footprint Maybe in a selector with three columns and a checkbox for spice or plain devices? OK, we have something like this, because we have directories for Diodes, ... So we select (directory) Diode, then 1N4141... But I think that in our head we select a symbol in the first step, but maybe it should be (only) a device. Of course this does not solve the footprint/pinout problem, so it may be only a useless idea, with no benefit for daily work. Best regards Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
