Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Rene Pöschl
On 18/10/17 12:50, Thomas Langås wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Gaurav Juvekar wrote: Summary: - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer? - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ? I think F.Fab and B.Fab is what

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Thomas, On 10/18/2017 11:19 AM, Thomas Langås wrote: > Disclaimer: I come from the world of Altium, and might have a biased workflow. > > Is the following possible in any way in KiCad, or is there a different > workflow that > supports what I want? > > Usually, when I make components, I have

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/18/2017 6:50 AM, Thomas Langås wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Gaurav Juvekar > wrote: >>> Summary: >>> - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer? >>> - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ? >> I think F.Fab

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Langås
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Gaurav Juvekar wrote: >> Summary: >> - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer? >> - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ? > I think F.Fab and B.Fab is what you want. Reference designator is

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Gaurav Juvekar
Hi, > Summary: > - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer? > - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ? I think F.Fab and B.Fab is what you want. Reference designator is supported using "REF**" -- Regards, Gaurav Juvekar

[Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Langås
Disclaimer: I come from the world of Altium, and might have a biased workflow. Is the following possible in any way in KiCad, or is there a different workflow that supports what I want? Usually, when I make components, I have a mechanical layer called "Assembly" where I either duplicate the