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[Fat-Zer <fatzer2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I've got a some ideas how to improve some parts if kicad schematics
library.

1. A common schematics:
There are a bunch of compomets with nearly the same schematics but
different in pin order/numbers. Also there are several variants of
components which are supposed to look the same e.g there are 4 or 5
different OpAmps images. (and as I was told none of them comply current
kicad library conventions). The same thing about transistors.

So it would be nice to have only one image and map it to the concrete
component with pin reordering/renaming.

2. Different images of the same schematic component.
There are already such variants for some common components like CP, also
there are "small" variants for some components.

In both such cases we can keep information about the component in single
symbol.
Also as a bonus we can easily support both IEC and US symbols and use it in
some other cases.

3. To store pin number of component in additional field.
Now cvpcb guesses pin number according to the pins displayed on the
schematics. Which is wrong if some pins are not connected/not present in
the schematics at all.

It would be great to store an overall pin number of component too (as an
option).


So... What do you think?