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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:22:34AM +0100, Benoît Roehr wrote:
> Beware here, they are not footprint anymore when they are on the
> board, have a value, a reference and so on... They are components.
> 
> Footprint is the right term for the standalone "print" a component
> will drop on a PCB. You can name them so in the footprint library,
> in the component propriety and so on... In the PCB editor, this
> object is a Components and should be named so.

Ok, clear, thank you very much for the explanation.

So we have:

a symbol     = a generic graphic for schematic
a component  = a graphic with a meaning (value, reference, etc.) for schematic
a footprint  = a generic graphic for pcb
a module     = a graphic with a meaning (value, reference, etc.) for pcb

right?

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Marco Ciampa

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