On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > [snip] > > You are correct. A symbol (power or otherwise) is not a component. It > is a symbolic representation of a component or anything else that needs > to represented that is useful when designing PCBs.
...except that it is a SCH_COMPONENT. If we're going to emphasize that symbols and components are not the same thing, we should probably clarify that the codebase calls them incorrectly ;) > ... Power symbols are > useful for ERC. What about net ties? There is no component involved > with a net-tie yet it has a footprint that represents the user's desired > connection pattern in a PCB. I've seen other EDA products allow for > virtual (in BOM but not in netlist) symbols for creating BOMs that > include hardware that are not directly part of the PCB. Sure, we could > represent each of those objects differently both internally and what we > present to the user but they are all so similar in scope that the symbol > concept makes sense. If we want to present these "special" symbols to > the user as something else, I'm fine with that but I'm not sure how > useful that is but internally they can still be represented as symbols. > > > > > It really is (or at least should be) nothing more than a specialized global > > net label. > > > > -a > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
