> BTW: Assignment of a footprints seems to me completely odd at this level. > When I create a part it consist of a partname, schematic symbol, an assigned > footprint, a 3d-model, and some attributes all in one place.
I recently moved to your more "PRO" approach,. however, when I started in KiCad and PCB design, the Cvpcb (assignment of a footprint) made me more sense and I used that flow: as hobbyist user, first I care about the schematic, then I care on the type of components (starting thinking on PCB) I will use (Eg: will that be an SMD or THT resistor? Vertical or Horizontal capacitor? etc) and then I start the PCB design. So I enjoyed this capability to not care much about some of the things when I just was drawing the schematic. It allowed me to go faster. In the end I found that the proper way will be to create my own libs with the fields you discuss, etc.. but creating a proper library for a new user is a difficult and consuming time. Mario Luzeiro ________________________________________ From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Clemens Koller [c...@embeon.de] Sent: 02 February 2017 15:28 To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Application naming Hello, Chris! Eeschema -> Schematic editor Pcbnew -> Layout editor Cvpcb -> move it to Library editor or manager BTW: Assignment of a footprints seems to me completely odd at this level. When I create a part it consist of a partname, schematic symbol, an assigned footprint, a 3d-model, and some attributes all in one place. Then I grab that part by its partname (like the handle of a suitcase) and use it in the schematics. From there it gets forwarded to the layout, bill-of-materials and assembly data and optionally to an 3d-renderer without any additional tweaking. A part to buy, i.e. named "LTC6362CMS8" comes already with all the information to be placed in the suitcase - it has exactly one type of footprint (here MSOP-8, JEDEC MO-187-AA). I don't see any reason to assign different footprints to parts, because they usually have only one. It's a different story if there will be some solder yield tweaking to automagically replace/update *all* footprints of a design by using a different process library. (i.e. use RoundRect shapes vs. Rectangular shapes to improve tombstoning or solderpaste release.) Here, we are thinking to generate footprints dynamically depending on soldering process parameters - but an MSOP-8 will still be an MSOP-8. Pl Editor -> Template editor (we might want to edit other stuff as well such as board outlines for PCIe and similar things) Bitmap2Component -> Remove as independent app, make "Import image" in libedit and modedit (dito.) Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
