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[Samuel Dolt <samuel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I’m the one that report a bug about default CP in Github yesterday.  (https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/97 <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/97>). 

I think your idea is great.


> 1. A common schematic:

It can be a base symbol witch contains the schematic and pin name. 

And extra info by « footprint » who relied footprint pin number to the pin name. Also, a pin name should be able to have several pin number.

> 2. Different images of the same schematic component.

Kicad can have a sort of « gettext » for standard symbol and an American user will get a US symbol and a European an IEC symbol each time he selects, for example, a resistance.

Maybe this info can be a « per user » settings and not stored in .pro or .sch file.


> 3. To store pin number of component in additional field.

This can be an info in the « by footprint » part.


Example of additional info for a Maxim DS18B20 with 3 connected pin :  Vdd, DQ and GND

For the TO-92 case :
	Vdd = 3
	DQ = 2
	GND = 1
	footprint-number-of-pins = 3
	recommanded-footprint: TO-92

For the μSOP:
	VDD = 8
	DQ = 1
	GND = 4
	footprint-number-of-pins = 8
	recommanded-footprint: MSOP-8

For the SO case:
	VDD = 3
	DQ = 4
	GND = 5
	footprint-number-of-pins = 8
	recommanded-footprint: SO-8
 Note: User don’t select this in Eeschema, but in Cvpcb.


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Samuel Dolt


> Le 11 janv. 2015 à 06:35, Fat-Zer <fatzer2@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> 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?
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