-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/2010 12:40 AM, Michael Heidinger wrote: > Hi, > > selecting items from CvPCB can sometimes be difficult if you have > several thousand of footprints added. Scrolling down and searching > alphabetically is consuming much time. > It would be really fast if above the list of the footprints in CvPCB a > textfield would be added and then you enter the name of the desiered > footprint and it displays you a list of the awailable footprints. > > Example: Entered "*SOT23*" > Results eg. "-someprestring-SOT23", "SOT23poststring", "preSOT23post". > Also a wildcad (* and %) would be great. I'm quite sure that there must > be some search libs that supply such search functions. >
I second that. > I think this additional feature will speed up the design process with > Kicad. > Not sure about it speeding things up. I usually spend less than 1% of the time in CvPCB. What I believe should also be done with the Kicad libs is a major cleanup. There are a lot of symbols that use weird naming conventions. Some transistors name their pins E,B,C, some 1,2,3, some G,D,S, some IC's go with VI, GND, VO, etc. All of the components I named above come in TO-220 packages. What happens is that you need a different footprint for each of the naming conventions. You would end up with needing 4 footprints for TO-220 horizontal, 4 for TO-220 vertical when in fact it's the same package. Add to that TO-92, SOT23, SOT-223, TO-247, and you end up needing a plethora of redundant footprints. It would be much more logical to name the pins 1,2,3, and let the footprints take care of which are which. > Another feature request for CvPCB ist that all footprints are sorted by > their lib. I mean it this way: Lets say we have a lib "a" with > footprints "a1" to "j10" > and a lib "b" with footprints "a1" to "j10". > It would be great if it could be displayed this way: > > a > -a1 > -b2 > -c.. > -j10 > b > -a1 > -b2 > -c.. > -j10 > > If i click now on a it shoud deflate, clicking on it again all items > should be visable. I think you know what i mean. Do you mean a DIP, SSOP, TDFN, etc class, each containing let's say DIP8, DIP10, DIP10, etc? That would be quite useful, I must admit. Another thought I have to add to this is getting the darn filtered footprint list to actually do some useful filtering. That way, you, or I, or anyone else won't have to go through the entire footprint list for the majority of symbols, as you probably have noticed is the case with capacitors. Oh, and let's not forget the plethora of "missing" footprints from the default libs. I say "missing" because there are a lot of common components that really should have footprints, but do not (B-case SMD, lots of potentiometers, etc). Manually installling extras from kicadlibs.org is very time-consuming. I'm actually willing to dedicate some free time to drawing those if someone can integrate them with the default libs. Alex G. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMVKVeAAoJEOYeVCFxnjTcucwH/2XKcAW3GrSpp9HSwCFkPgcv MJKlrBbCsYy0DBozzmNSm2hvnfwpTi3iiJt+1+DA0Y3FuOml+8PIDu4pMGM9Qdcb H0VkS1WRHSaRRaFbC3cq9gUthKlBiQw0TQjkfSOHHpUpL4fWVGKdSHAwyO8LeSwP N58dAUxr+p6JkE5nWLBHonFY+/KYLP8X9OXH5BavBreSbLAtDhDgG0iJv/KgLO8z 0cT1KlDW+EZIu71ZOftVBwBjYh+futc5Sn5vBe0Nn//EVRdfmXkDtxJVsqB3AJ68 Hm6UspSoOVJdyiumxz0Xkf/KUdr3ugmyTvVnqFED/2YcAIacTigKeKFsNZkzZjI= =FSji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
