I am starting to create some components and stumbled across some things someone else might have already solved:
- When creating schematic symbols, the name equals the value. Is there a way to have different name and value, for instance I would like to have "10K" as value but "SRES 10K 0805 1%" as name? - When I created the schematics symbol I limited the footprint via filter to "SM0805". And this was the only one shown in cvpcb but when I used automatic assiciation it choose SM1206. Bug or feature? - When creating lines in the footprint editor I can't select the layer I'm drawing on, I can only change it afterwards. Is there a better way to do it? - When creating or changing component footprints I can choose the layer for lines etc. But can't find a way to chose layers for texts. I am normally using 2 "Silkscreens", one as silkscreen and one as printout where the structures are smaller and more information is shown. - Finally: Is there a way to change layer names, just for convenience? Thanks for your help in advance, Heiko P.S.: Can't resist some comment about the package, sorry: The guys are doing a great thing creating such a piece of software. I could never do it, I'm just not enough into application software development. But isn't C++ a very structured language. I am sometimes surprised that certain features are not implemented. I would have thought that it all starts with some primitives like lines and circles being then compined into shapes being combined to padstacks and tracks or component using several layers. I guess I am really not into software development.
