On 09/23/2010 03:12 AM, Martijn Kuipers wrote: > 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?)? >
An important eeschema use case is a "project specific library", where you would *copy* a non-part-specific symbol into your own project specific library, and assign a value to it at that time, along with datasheet, vendor, footprint, etc. This could be done for each unique part on a board. And no matter how much we try and avoid having to do this, I suspect it will still need to be done. Therefore I consider this something important to be considering when we discuss changes in the UI and file formats. Dick > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
