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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 this is a really good idea.

A further enhancement would be the ability to access this data from
Eeschema such that BoMs can be created that exclude THT or virtual parts.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 12/14/2016 3:21 PM, jp charras wrote:
> > Le 14/12/2016 à 20:51, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> >> Can we rename "Normal" and "Normal+Insert" to "THT" and "SMT", or
> >> "Through hole" and "Surface mount", or something similarly descriptive?
> >> I *still* have to mouse over for the tooltip to remember which is
> >> which...
> >>
> >
> > I agree.
> > But do not use short names.
> >
> > "Through hole component" and "Surface mount component", or something
> similar is better, because too
> > short names are *really* hard to translate.
> >
>
> This change makes sense to me.  I agree with the using the full names
> rather than the abbreviations.
>
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