The question of pin names had been solved a while ago already. It was agreed that the symbols would take care of pin swaps.
As for the tab, I wished to avoid the board-level edit of the footprint, but it's a good compromise to avoid many library variants. Michal Salaban (See other email) suggests another solution, which consists of attributing pin number 4 to the tab in the schematic symbol, and pad number four to the tab in the footprint. Here, the user alse has to manually assign a net to the pad, but in the schematic. Any comments on that one? On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Vesa Solonen <[email protected]> wrote: > 31/12/14, 04:01, Carl Poirier kirjoitti: > > Vesa, > > > > If I understand correctly, you say the oyvind-aabling library is a good > > example of having multiple variants of the same housing, which you don't > > like. Right? > > Hi Carl, > > Quite the opposite, if I understand correctly ;) > With multiple variants depending on a device I meant e.g. TO-220_GDS and > TO-220_BCE, which I don't like. I see why pin names are nice on the PCB, > but they don't belong to the standardised housing library. They should > be pulled from the schematic symbol the standard housing is linked to. > This should be quite easy to add in to the pcbnew pin rendering, > possibly with an option to turn it on part by part basis. > > In the oyvind-aabling's library variants are only mechanical variants, > vertical, horizontal with tab to PCB and horizontal with tab away from > PCB. Everything parametrically generated including 3-D and > not_too_long_names. > > -Vesa > >
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