I am just doing 2 pin diodes, since they are easily confused orientation-wise. They have cathode silkscreen markings, so I went with pad names A&C. The netlist reads better too, on the rare moment a human has to look at it.
Sent from my Galaxy S®III -------- Original message -------- From: Heiko Rosemann <[email protected]> Date:04/04/2014 5:23 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Diode pad names? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2014 10:45 PM, Carl Poirier wrote: > I think this is a very good idea. I will add this to our upcoming > KiCad library convention. Many transistors use letters already. I do not agree for footprints, because - at least if I understand the proposal correctly - it will lead to many many different footprints of the same housing, i.e. an SOT23-EBC, an SOT23-SGD (for FETs), an SOT23-CBE, an SOT23-A1-C-A2, an SOT23-A1-C1A2-C2 etc. pp. with all the same dimensional data but different pad names. I came to kicad from Eagle some years ago and I still believe distinguishing between symbol-package-device to be the best solution for this problem. > As for capacitors, why not also using C and A for cathode and > anode? In my experience, the terminals of a capacitor are not called cathode and anode. YMMV, Heiko > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:24 PM, jp charras <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Le 04/04/2014 20:02, Nick Østergaard a écrit : >> 2014-04-04 19:24 GMT+02:00 Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> >>> I am in the process of migrating my personal footprint an > schematic part libraries to >>> using A and C for pad/pin names. >>> >>> Away from 1 and 2. >>> >>> Other than the fact that I now have the burden of maintaining > every footprint and >>> schematic part object myself relating to all things diode, >>> from > now to eternity, is this a >>> bad idea? > > Since a long time, I am using A and K (or C for you) for diodes, > EBC for bipolar transistors and GSD for FETs. > > I suggest you to also use + and - for polarized capacitors. - -- eMails verschlüsseln mit PGP - privacy is your right! Mein PGP-Key zur Verifizierung: http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlM/MPQACgkQ/Vb5NagElAW6nACfUrtOqqoHEfmf86N/N4m6ag8F Sj0AnimYsQXcYNue9KJKHpyHT9K5KBXd =6vwU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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