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On 04/07/2015 06:58 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 06/04/2015 21:10, Carl Poirier a écrit :
> > 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?
> I extended the max units to 52 in rev 5579.
> (for practical reasons, like size of menus, this max count is set to 52,
> but can be up to 26x26).
>
> But how is it possible with previous versions to have more than 26 units
> (the lib component properties fix this limit to 26 units) ?
Thank you, Thank you.   I can't imagine, short of a script, how to deal 
with BGAs and eeschema in a sensible way.
26 was just too few units to split into usable units.  This change will 
help capturing net lists in a natural way with BGAs in eeschema.