Hi,
I’m the one that report a bug about default CP in Github yesterday.
(https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/97
<https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/97>).
I think your idea is great.
> 1. A common schematic:
It can be a base symbol witch contains the schematic and pin name.
And extra info by « footprint » who relied footprint pin number to the pin
name. Also, a pin name should be able to have several pin number.
> 2. Different images of the same schematic component.
Kicad can have a sort of « gettext » for standard symbol and an American user
will get a US symbol and a European an IEC symbol each time he selects, for
example, a resistance.
Maybe this info can be a « per user » settings and not stored in .pro or .sch
file.
> 3. To store pin number of component in additional field.
This can be an info in the « by footprint » part.
Example of additional info for a Maxim DS18B20 with 3 connected pin : Vdd, DQ
and GND
For the TO-92 case :
Vdd = 3
DQ = 2
GND = 1
footprint-number-of-pins = 3
recommanded-footprint: TO-92
For the μSOP:
VDD = 8
DQ = 1
GND = 4
footprint-number-of-pins = 8
recommanded-footprint: MSOP-8
For the SO case:
VDD = 3
DQ = 4
GND = 5
footprint-number-of-pins = 8
recommanded-footprint: SO-8
Note: User don’t select this in Eeschema, but in Cvpcb.
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Samuel Dolt
> Le 11 janv. 2015 à 06:35, Fat-Zer <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hi, I've got a some ideas how to improve some parts if kicad schematics
> library.
>
> 1. A common schematics:
> There are a bunch of compomets with nearly the same schematics but different
> in pin order/numbers. Also there are several variants of components which are
> supposed to look the same e.g there are 4 or 5 different OpAmps images. (and
> as I was told none of them comply current kicad library conventions). The
> same thing about transistors.
>
> So it would be nice to have only one image and map it to the concrete
> component with pin reordering/renaming.
>
> 2. Different images of the same schematic component.
> There are already such variants for some common components like CP, also
> there are "small" variants for some components.
>
> In both such cases we can keep information about the component in single
> symbol.
> Also as a bonus we can easily support both IEC and US symbols and use it in
> some other cases.
>
> 3. To store pin number of component in additional field.
> Now cvpcb guesses pin number according to the pins displayed on the
> schematics. Which is wrong if some pins are not connected/not present in the
> schematics at all.
>
> It would be great to store an overall pin number of component too (as an
> option).
>
>
> So... What do you think?
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