Thanks to all, I am glad that there is this discussion here ! Yesterday I have built a custom library of symbols including my manufacturing info, part numbers, ordering numbers and provider. Associated to my footprint libraries that are bound to the PCB company I intend to refer to, that's now quite powerful ...
That is a compromise though as you may define a bipolar transistor like an MPSA06 and an MPSA56. They have each a manufacturer, a Part Number, an Ordering Number and a provider. For the resistors, I use 0.25W for density, 0.6W, 2,6W then 6W. I won't build a library with E96 series values 2 times, then 2 E12 series ... So I do not put the ordering info, but just the series. In the end, I use the following custom fields (renamed thanks to Brian's patch that has landed in Fedora KiCad distro): - Manufacturer - Serie/Part Number - Ordering Info - Provider I need more practice on KiCad before I can really think how to add some tools to improve component management, but that is satisfactorily at the moment, unless you have a 500 symbol schematic to switch to your various symbols, that is error prone as an operation and do not wish it to anyone ;) The previous point about having an external DB is quite good as well and I will try playing with the component list out of pcbnew. Best, M. --- In [email protected], Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@...> wrote: > > On 4 April 2010 22:01, marcmendezbermond <marcmen...@...> wrote: > > Hi all ! > > > > Progressing on my project, I have a question about component/library > > management. > > > > The "Component list" feature of eeschema is quite convenient but is there a > > way to accelerate data input ? I would like to use custom fields of > > components to store manufacturer, part number, ordering info and doing it a > > component at a time is quite annoying ... > > > > My idea would be to input this straight in my custom library, then using > > its symbols would replicate those info to my schematic. > > > > In the end, when I inserting a 2SK1058 mosfet that would result in a > > component with Manufacturer field set to Hitachi, Part No 2SK1058, Ordering > > No 1234567 in my favorite store, and so on ... > > > > Thanks in advance for pointing me out any method, > > M. > > I have submitted a patch to start supporting custom field names for > components. i.e. instead of Field1, you could set it to Manufacturer, > or Farnell Part Number, or whatever you like without having to do this > separately for every component you generate in libedit. > > It should be in SVN at some point in the near future, and I expect > some other patches along these lines too. There are more patches to > help make KiCad able to support a heavy symbol system (One where all > information is present in the library component) > > Best Regards, > > Brian. >
