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Re: [silly question] Are pad/pin names case-sensitive (and should they be)?

 

Without speculating too much about the subject, I would expect it to
be case sensitive. Having stuff case insensitive other than in a
search box seem like trouble to me.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 11:43, Tomasz Wlostowski
<tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have design with a multi-row connector with pins labeled BGA-style
> (a1, a2, etc.). I noticed the footprint for the same symbol in my
> library has the pad names in uppercase (A1, A2) and so the netlister
> doesn't connect these pins.
>
> Is this the expected behaviour or should we make the pin/pad names
> case-insensitive?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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