Bernd has done a very nice job on this manual. There are some issues with different terminology in the various language versions. For the life of me, I cannot understand why in English, they designate the field "Value", in German as "Werk/Chip" and Lord only knows what else in other languages. How about "Name" (English) "Nom" (French?) "Nomen" German? etc. Or heck, how about PartNumber <G> ? As an English user I want to insert the value, i.e. 0.001uF in the "Value" field ... which will work as well a "C" but is not very helpful when you have a couple hundred different caps with the real-world value of 0.001uF .... sigh. Still the best damn software out there in my humble opinion though.
--- In [email protected], "Bernd Wiebus" <bernd.wie...@...> wrote: > > Hello > > > I go into library editor and select a library. Then i choose a part from > > > this library and edit it and then i open the new library to save it in > > and am forced to save it with the same name. Why is there no option to > > change the name?! > > I had the same problem at the beginning, when i started to write my own > library. So i wrote a manual about editing symbols (i did not yet something > big with modules). You will find my manual about the symbol editor at the > attachment as "SymboleFuerKiCad318082009-RevC-EN.pdf". > You also will find this file at the repository of the KiCAD users Mailing > list, wehere are you member. > There you will find the original of this manual, which i wrote in german and > translated it to englisch, too. The symbol library is also in this > repository, and is named SymbolsSimilarEN60617+oldDIN617-RevB-en.lib . > > I now, there are many ways to create a new symbol from scrap, but this will > be a little bit confusing sometimes. > > With best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic > > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 >
