Indeed, the custom sub-designators would be nice. For the close future, would it be possible to simply extend to "AA"? Else, are any of you aware of potential problems if the '[' character is used?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:50:45PM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: > > Hi peeps, > > > > KiCad doesn't seem to have a great nomenclature for the units above 26. > Let > > me quote Alex Forencich who is working on Xilinx FPGA > > <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/149>: > > > > > XC5VTX240T-FF1759 in the virtex 5 library has exactly 27 symbols. It > goes > > A through Z and then [. > > > > Would it be possible to make it something like "AA" ? > > Could be a (little) problem due the way eeschema (at least at one time) > 'desconstructed' the designator (i.e. simply took off the last > character). Maybe when the other subdesignator styles where added it > changed. Nothing particularily difficult to handle in any case. > > While we are on it, for the new library format, I'd like to have custom > sub-designators for fixed part components. The problem is that while you > go U1A, U1B, U1C, U1D for IC and stuff, for relays (just an example) you > *should* use K1, K1-1, K1-2, K1-3 (first one is coil, following are > contacts). Of course K1A, K1B, K1C works as well but that's not quite > correct:P > > -- > 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 > >
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