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[Tim Hutt <tdhutt@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is fantastic. It is one of the more confusing (and easy to fix!)
things about Kicad. I did a small survey of data sheets when a while ago to
see what they call them. There was some variety but footprint was the most
popular. I can't remember exactly but it was definitely used in more than
50% of data sheets.

I can check again and find out exactly tonight if anyone wants? I think
"footprint" is the most descriptive in any case (I don't see how it is a
module at all in fact).
On 8 Oct 2014 07:48, "Mark Roszko" <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hehe, well, I guess everything can be renamed in the opposite
> direction. But consistency is needed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
> <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:37:40AM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >> So from what I remember, Kicad used to call alot of pcb footprints as
> >> "modules". Sometimes it was "module", other times "footprint module"
> >> and now "footprint". Footprint seems to have picked up in usage so
> >> let's use it everywhere!
> >
> > AFAIK the 'official' name in kicad is module, however I don't really
> > care :D
> >
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