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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, the custom sub-designators would be nice.

For the close future, would it be possible to simply extend to "AA"? Else,
are any of you aware of potential problems if the '[' character is used?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:50:45PM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote:
> > Hi peeps,
> >
> > KiCad doesn't seem to have a great nomenclature for the units above 26.
> Let
> > me quote Alex Forencich who is working on Xilinx FPGA
> > <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/149>:
> >
> > > XC5VTX240T-FF1759 in the virtex 5 library has exactly 27 symbols. It
> goes
> > A through Z and then [.
> >
> > Would it be possible to make it something like "AA" ?
>
> Could be a (little) problem due the way eeschema (at least at one time)
> 'desconstructed' the designator (i.e. simply took off the last
> character). Maybe when the other subdesignator styles where added it
> changed. Nothing particularily difficult to handle in any case.
>
> While we are on it, for the new library format, I'd like to have custom
> sub-designators for fixed part components. The problem is that while you
> go U1A, U1B, U1C, U1D for IC and stuff, for relays (just an example) you
> *should* use K1, K1-1, K1-2, K1-3 (first one is coil, following are
> contacts). Of course K1A, K1B, K1C works as well but that's not quite
> correct:P
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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