Hello, hauptmech, thank you for the doc, it is very useful. I only have ipc-7251,7351 here. I'll read through it and see what I can apply to the library. I also plan to develop such calculator or at least a better footprint viewer for kicad. This viewer will be very useful for Cvpcb & Pcbnew.
fabrizio, I would like to create a new library set for kicad. What I'm doing now is defining standard, guideline, etc (drawing style, naming scheme, etc) for the library. This works is due to, in fact, I (almost) never use current kicad library which is, IMHO, lack of consistency, standard, not quite beautiful. I use my own set of library (and I think many do). I think we should share the library so we can improve library usability & variety. I thought about improving the current library. But it can break any existed design. Therefore starting a new library is better choice for me. Simon, good idea. With user submitted libs, kicad library dev (could be kicad-library-committer) can review if the library meet the defined standard and merge to the main branch. One problem that came to my mind, where will the submitted libs store? Tony > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Simon Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > On 11/03/2011 10:09 AM, Phinitnan Chanasabaeng wrote: > > I'm current working on a new set of standard & guideline for kicad's > > library. > > This work will be based on previous discussions and any publicly > > available standard. > > I'll push it to launchpad > > at lp:~kicad-lib-committers/+junk/library-experiment a long with > > examples as soon as it is ready. > > > > I think with the new library, quality check should be taken more > > seriously to ensure compatibility and correctness. > > Please leave me any addition comment & suggestion so I can include it > > in the guideline. > > I was thinking of adding an easy (i.e. integrated) way to kicad to > submit + download library components, possibly with a way to rate the > quality and add feedback. Nothing over-engineered tho. > > User-submitted components wouldn't directly go into the "official" kicad > library, but could maybe easily pulled over, once quality standards are > met. > > What do people think? > > cheers > simon > > >
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