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[Heiko Rosemann <heiko.rosemann@xxxxxx>]

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On 04/05/2014 12:23 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> 05/04/14 12:29, Nick Østergaard kirjoitti:
>> 2014-04-05 11:09 GMT+02:00 Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>:
>>> 05/04/14 01:23, Heiko Rosemann kirjoitti:
> 
>>>> I came to kicad from Eagle some years ago and I still
>>>> believe distinguishing between symbol-package-device to be
>>>> the best solution for this problem.
>>> 
>>> Second that. The implementation inside Kicad is not there yet.
>>> The symbol is somewhat hard linked to the footprint (because
>>> symbol have to contain matching pin numbers) and even the alias
>>> system can not solve the issue.
>> 
>> I never really started to use eagle beacuse of its wierd library.
>> I do like that the symbols are seperate from the footprint in
>> kicad. (Or at leat tries to)
> 
> Neither me. I used to think the same as it looked such by the
> first glance. Someone on this list explained the real situation.
> Eagle just presents the library that way to the user, but the data
> behind it is smarter. (IIRC)

I don't think Eagle is much smarter than the interface showing the
data - it also has a thousand different versions of the same footprint
IIRC, because with Eagle the (symbol,footprint,device) tuple needs to
reside in the same library file. (At least the last time I seriously
used it, which is probably >5 years ago)

That's one part of Eagle library management kicad should definitely
_not_ take over. Same goes for the requirement to always have a device
when you can just as easily make one on the fly from a symbol and a
footprint you're never going to use again in that combination.

About the rest of your posting, I'm astonished how much we seem to be
advocating the exact same workflow.

Best Regards,
Heiko
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