On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:09 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > symbol - The graphical and/or electrical representation of a component. > Think everything between DRAW/ENDDRAW in the current file format. > > field - The default and user defined text values that describe a > component such as value, reference designator, footprint, etc. > > component - The combination of default and user defined fields and a > symbol that get imported into a schematic. > > library - One or more components along with some meta-data to describe > the library. >
When drawing a schematic everything is easy when using components, especially using user-defined libraries. Does this mean that Kicad will ship with a large set of (component-) libraries? Or, will every user need to start creating his own, from symbols (is there a symbol-library foreseen?)? Will the component-library also have a reference to (default) footprint(s)? Related to this, if a component is available with different footprints are they different components, or the same component with a reference to multiple footprints? If the latter is true, then one could easily choose another footprint in newPCB, for instance. /Martijn P.S. What is the preferred option regarding the mailing-list. Do I reply to the author and CC the list or just reply to the list (if someone is not subscribed to should then ask to be CC-ed) ? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
