Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Marco Serantoni wrote: We could use a base library that is referred from specific parts library as father using its symbol like classes (inherance). So who wants heavy libraries has its parts, who keeps its library light has its part fallbacking to the father. It seems

Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: Inheritance. hmmm. Why not just *copy* symbol by symbol and make each copied symbol into a part-specific component in a new project specific library. I agree. More simple to use and less complex to implement, can't be a bad thing :D But we are

Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Martijn Kuipers wrote: I would be very happy with an export function, doing: Export all used components into a project library. This way I can send the schematics on to the next person and (s)he can adjust where needed, without having to look for some components/footprint

Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 9/24/2010 2:25 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: Inheritance. hmmm. Why not just *copy* symbol by symbol and make each copied symbol into a part-specific component in a new project specific library. I agree. More simple to use and less complex

Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I'm not particularly thrilled by the idea of using a database. There are the Neither me, I couldn't open it in vi :D it's the 'library' idea which is flawed IMHO. If it isn't for some of these crappy filesystems we have around (you know their

Re: [Kicad-developers] library structure

2010-09-24 Thread Karl Schmidt
Re- gate swap and pin swap. This is a missing feature (very useful one) that would require a couple of fields in the library. I'll use the example of a hex AND-gate. When we lay out the PCB, it can turn out that if we swap gate A with gate B in the package, it eliminates a via. Same thing