On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:54:42PM +0200, Vesa Solonen wrote: > Great! Please consider how to work with both light and heavy symbols > though. Eagle model is "heavy", KiCad and gEDA mostly "light". Both have > their uses, but keeping flexibility and maintainability needs "light" > approach.
IIRC eagle (at least v5) had three entities: - Package - Symbol - Part (seen as a many-to-many between package and symbol) I don't remember where subparts were handled (if at the symbol or part level). Kicad only have - Package - Symbol And the association is done with an attribute on the symbol instance. At the moment the thing I miss on the symbol definition in eeschema is specifying 'default packages' (or wildcards) for different aliases, like documentation. BC337 and BC817, for example. Another 'cute' thing to have (only a shortcut, really, nothing vital) would be to flag a symbol to pop up the value dialog just after insertion. Example: Instead of R, call it R? (the ? would only give troubles anyway:P) and seeing the ? after insertion ask for the value. -- 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
