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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mario,

On 1/4/19 10:53 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
>> Now if you create a unique part number for every
>> resistance value, tolerance, temperature coefficient, manufacturer, etc.
>> that would be tens if not hundreds of thousands of unique part numbers.
> 
> I know my intervention may be a bit offtopic, but it may add some other elements to discussion:
> 
> On such case of the 3D variants, it could be considered a 3D parametric generation but KiCad would need to support it internally somehow.
> Since a 3D file is only need at export time (eg: when user exports the project to STEP) or for 3D Viewer proposes ( generated on the fly ), there was no need to storage any 3D data for share a project as it will always be generated by KiCad.
> 
> Parametric / procedural generation is the easiest part:
> https://github.com/KammutierSpule/kicad3Dmodels
> 
> Mario Luzeiro

This is an interesting idea but I'm not sure I want kicad to be a
parametric 3D model generator.  I think this is best left to tools that
are specialized for this purpose such as FreeCAD.  Although this could
be scripted using python since a lot of this work is already done.  This
is a discussion after v6.

Cheers,

Wayne

> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Kicad-developers <kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 04 January 2019 14:03
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Symbol library file format
> 
> On 1/2/2019 2:55 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
>> kristoffer Ödmark kirjoitti 2.1.2019 klo 12.32:
>>
>>> I would rather have a new atomic file-format or storage format, so one
>>> could actually send a complete part in an easy way, that would include
>>> 3D-Files, SPICE data, symbol and footprints, and it would also mean that
>>> one could do the mapping to pins in that directory or file instead.
> 
> I can somewhat see the utility in this but it really doesn't make a lot
> of sense to me.  Lets assume for a second that it would be useful to
> create a separate atomic part for every 0603 resistor part number
> currently available.  Given that the 0603 footprint file is 1.7K, the
> step 3D model is 39.6K, the wrl 3D model is 14.4K, and the fully defined
> symbol file would be about 1.5K so that's a total of 57.2K per atomic
> part number.  Now if you create a unique part number for every
> resistance value, tolerance, temperature coefficient, manufacturer, etc.
> that would be tens if not hundreds of thousands of unique part numbers.
>  100K unique atomic part numbers would require 5.72G of storage just for
> the 0603 resistors.  Add all of the other resistors footprints including
> THT and your talking about several 100G.  Add all of the other passive
> components like capacitors, inductors, etc and you are talking about
> several terabytes of storage.  Maybe I'm missing something but even with
> modern storage systems, this doesn't scale well.
> 
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