For Cases, pads, etc., you can also refere to:
New Surface Mount Design and Land Pattern Standard
The "official" text for device farms.
ciao
Carlo, I2GOQ
--- Mer 12/5/10, Lorenzo <[email protected]> ha scritto:
Da: Lorenzo <[email protected]>
Oggetto: [kicad-users] Re: Module Library madness
A: [email protected]
Data: Mercoledì 12 maggio 2010, 18:19
> pcb-fpw is open source, so it would be possible to modify add it to the kicad
> suite .. seems to be
> written in java-bloat..
No, it's buggy plain C with GTK :P
It actually contains a lot of hardwired size, too:P
> The separate names for a cap and resistor 0805 package is silly
Actually it isn't... a ceramic cap has round plating, a chip resistor is an
attached foil... I presume the mechanical properties are different (indeed the
pads are different, too)
> The M,N,and L are for most, Nominal and least -- describes most compromises
> folks would run into..
You forgot Proportional for THT, too... and the Nominal one is good for 90% of
the production projects, IMHO...
> One thing to point out is these case sizes originate in metric - the imperial
> notation is approximate.
*Most* case size originate in metric:D
