Thanks Dan. Would you care to share that library? I mainly dislike the
resistors and caps (no curved plate).

Doug

--- In [email protected], "Dan" <dan...@...> wrote:
>
> No, it's a case of US and rest-of-the-world.  As an American, I don't
> give a rat's ass what some standards committee says (especially if
> they're in another country), I prefer the zigzag resistors and other
> US-preferred symbols, and apparently most other Americans do too, as
> these symbols are still predominately used here.
> 
> Personally, I created my own symbols and saved them in my own personal
> library.  It doesn't take long to draw a zigzag resistor symbol in
Kicad.
> 
> Besides, standards committees are basically useless.  Just look at how
> useless the ISO was when MS came in and paid off a bunch of European
> countries to approve their broken OOXML "standard".  Standards
> committees and their recommendations should be taken with a large
> grain of salt.
> 
> Dan
> 
> --- In [email protected], "nonuckingfumber" <irwin@> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it is so much a case of US and the rest of the world, as
> > it is with imperial measurements, it is a case of old and new. The
> > symbols you talk about such as the zig zag resistors where in
> > widespread use everywhere. But times and styles have changed, the
> > symbology normaly used in KiCAD and elsewhere roughly comforms to the
> > IEC standards.
> >
>


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