Lorenzo wrote: > The IPC standard naming is IMHO unwieldy, too complex to use in the usual > cases! (and, anyway, > remember that there are around a dozen or so of SOT-23 variants, too!)
You can tell IPC standards was written by engineers that haven't done real life design work -- some of the text sounds like it was written by lawyers <yuck>. Anyway - the problem is there really isn't one pad size for an 0805 that works - there are variants for density vs reliability trade offs and to really optimize the pad you need to consider the thickness of the part. (should the 0805 (2012 Metric) be called a 201250 Metric?) I found this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/pcb-fpw/pcb-fpw.html It would be cool if someone tweaked pcb-fpw to to produce kicad footprint libraries.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail k...@xtronics.com Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 Gumption is 99% of success. kps --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
