Based on a true story! I have this component (ugly and expensive safety relay) composed of 5 subparts, chip name RELAY-AAAB (obviously locked parts):
Subpart 1) Coil Subparts 2-4) NO contact Subpart 5) NC contact during layout it happens that the contacts are not in that order, so I define a RELAY-BAAA component: Subpart 1) Coil Subpart 2) NC contact Subparts 3-5) NO contact (aside: I could have changed the pins but then they wouldn't have matched the datasheet, which is a bad thing) Luckily I only have a pair of these so changing them by hand is not too difficult: edit, change the chip name and change the subpart. Repeat until done. Well, I actually forgot to fix one subpart... so I had K2A, K2B, K2D and K2E with the new chip RELAY-BAAA, K2C instead remained to RELAY-AAAB. DRC signalled *no error* when different subparts used different chips! Since IIRC there are already some coherency checks between subparts I propose to add even this. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
