We go with what ever the part Mfg. calls their footprint if is one available. Other wise its named by the project board owner usually the HW engineer, In the design docs parts list. There are master symbol and footprint libs that are maintained with somewhat logical names, there is (again) no real standard out there. He pushes this to the board layout guys with symbol attributes. They of course can reference the design docs any time to cross check.
Mark -----Original Message----- >From: apluscw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 15, 2007 10:17 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [kicad-users] Re: KiCad vs. FreePCB > >> > The best way to handle this is to put the footprint file names >> > in the symbol attributes not in a seperate file, IMHO. >> >> Actually this can be done in KiCAD. If you edit the component >properties in eeschema and fill the footprint field with the >appropriate footprint name, you can use the netlist exported by >eeschema directly in pcbnew. It will complain about no .cmp file >existing, but will use the footprints specified in the footprint field. >> >> Regards > >
