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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 13.10.2014 12:04, from Benoît Roehr:
> Le 13/10/2014 11:40, LordBlick a écrit :
>> In response to a message written on 13.10.2014 08:01, from Benoît Roehr:
>>> For kicad, it could be a good thing to be able to embed a single footprint to a
>>> component if the footprint is really special, but it's non sens if you can
>>> appropriately tag the footprint and put it with the others.
>> There is a special field to assign footprint to schematic element…
> Yes i know, I was meaning if you need a very special footprint just for one
> component, you may not want to pollute your existing pcblibrary with this
> footprint. For example, you have just one component packaged in a 2 rows QFN
> package. You don't want this in your standard QFN lib.
> So the ability to attach a single footprint directly to the component without
> creating or modifying a PCBLib can be useful.
> But it is new feature and it doesn't have to be implemented yet. Not important.
> Footprint have to be well named, and all searchable in the same place, not
> hidden. ;) More important for me would be a footprint preview in schlib editor.
In KiCAD each project can have its own library of footprints, so this idea ​​
duplicates, that exist already.
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Best Regards,
LordBlick