This has been committed. BTW, is there any particular reason to having the value field of a footprint default to "VAL**", besides indicating it has not been set ? I'll have to add that to the convention.
I ask because I noticed I had put rule "1.6. The Value field must be prefilled with the object name." in the general rules, whereas I believe it applies only to symbols. Actually most of them if not all are filled with the reference designator by default. On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Carl Poirier <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's use the full name, then. So here are the adjustments: > > 2. Symbol Library Names (.lib files) > ------------------------------------ > > 2.1. Manufacturer. > 2.2. Category or family of parts. ex: "Capacitors", "Spartan6", etc. > > > 4. Symbol Names > --------------- > > 4.1. Name of symbol, may be shortened for common components or use > reference designator of the symbol (IEEE 315-1975). ex: "Conn_4x2", "C"etc. > 4.2. Manufacturer. > 4.3. Part number, including extension for specific footprint. (JEDEC for > common devices, ex: 1N4001) > 4.4. Any modification to the original footprint, indicated by appending > the reason. Ex: different pin ordering: "transistor_PNP_pinswap1" > 4.5. Indication of quantity if symbol is an array. ex: resistor array: > "Resistor_x8" > > Any other comments? > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Kerusey Karyu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> W dniu 25.07.2014 19:29, Carl Poirier pisze: >> >> >> > In this case it's not much of a problem because the extra letters >> > indicating the footprint are official names from the datasheet. But >> > are there cases where a part is manufactured in many packages and >> > doesn't have a distinction for it in the name? >> > >> > >> I have never encountered a case where a major manufacturer does not >> define precise name for a specific version of a device. Sometimes they >> (eg Texas Instruments) are even very overzealous in this topic. >> >> It seems to me that this can happen only in the case of small >> manufacturers from the Far East, producing own things or something >> under license (or not :-). Although, I put a pair of elements of >> lesser-known manufacturers in the libraries and a problem in their >> naming doesn't occurred. >> >> >> Kerusey Karyu >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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