Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] The Microchip Mess and how to clean it up

2014-11-05 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
I agree strongly with Cirillo. The Kicad repository should only have user’s contributed libraries. Taking Eagle parts, and converting them with a script might seems acceptable, but it will most likely a source of complaints from users, as they may not be 100% compatible with KiCad. I once used

Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] KLC - courtyard

2015-01-10 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
I have not followed the discussion very closely as I am away from home until end of January, but I would like to make a comment as I see that a lot of people are confused by te concept of courtyard. The confusion is very understandable as since the advent of SMT, the courtyard is very close to

Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] KLC - courtyard

2015-01-12 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
resistors, IPC-7351 states a nominal courtyard excess of 0.15mm. See here, page 13. The KLC can be amended On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Jean-Paul Louis lou...@yahoo.com wrote: I have not followed the discussion very closely as I am away from home until end of January, but I would like to make

Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] assembly layer

2015-05-25 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
nnn brings some good points, but let’s get realistic. Assembly documentation is more and more in digital form and paper is slowly disappearing from the manufacturing floor. We need to look at their value in different process steps. 1- SMT Assembly drawing has ZERO value there, except in the

Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] KiCad LIbrary Convention update 1.1

2016-09-11 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
in 40+ years of electronic manufacturing, I almost never saw values in silk screen. RefDes are fine for sparse boards, but useless with very dense boards. Values could be on some user layer, or maybe in one of the ECO layers. Just my $0.02, Jean-Paul N1JPL > On Sep 11, 2016, at 6:00 PM,

Re: [Kicad-lib-committers] DIP THT packages

2016-12-25 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Merry Christmas / Hannukah / All other to everyone. Jan, Why do you prefix your SMT packages with DIP? For everyone in the electronic industry, DIP always mean Through Hole package. Your naming conventions are really misleading. Just my $0.02, Jean-Paul N1JPL > On Dec 25, 2016, at 8:44 AM,

[Kicad-lib-committers] How to search for a specific part in github

2017-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Hi Everyone, I have been following the kicad library development for a while, and I have a question. I am starting a new project and I want to use a low noise amplifier made by TI (ex burr brown) OPA1632. I was hoping to find it in the library, but I can’t find it. Before I reinvent the wheel,