----- Original Message ----- > From: Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]> > To: Kicad Developers <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 8:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Experiments and considerations for more layer > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:21:59AM -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: >> 5000 module descriptions to extract the 5000 pieces of placement >> data is the horror of kicad's internal representation. > > There is a reason for components being copied and not instantiated. > > Often you need to 'tweak' a component, slimming or fattening a pad, or > removing unusing fixture holes. > > So your 5000 capacitors are not necessarily all the same! > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl >
That may be the case, but personally I would have preferred to treat that as being a different component with its own footprint, even if it ultimately refers to the same part number on the BoM. So many copies doesn't make much sense to me - not even for a few hundred components. - Cirilo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
