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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the system I am describing could easily link to Part-DB as the
backend, just looking at it briefly.

That could be a cool application.

-Jon

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:16 PM Martin Marmsoler <martin.marmsoler@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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> On 8/27/20 10:04 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> >
> > You can also choose to place symbols from a regular KiCad symbol library.
> > So you could just choose an inductor symbol, which would have no
> > footprint association.
> > Later when you know what inductor you need, you can replace that with
> > a specific inductor from the database, which will bring in a footprint
> > association with it.
>
> Yes this sounds like I proposed. For a part all checked symbols can be
> assigned. So choosing a part which is not compatible with the current
> symbol raises an error.
>
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> On 8/27/20 10:04 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > I think that a database library could also have a place in a community
> > setting, if the database is well-curated.
> > This would likely mean some kind of web interface for browsing parts,
> etc.
> > It would be possible, but is beyond the scope of what I'm planning to
> > work on at this point.
>
> For this I checked out if there exist an open source part database and
> there I found Part-DB
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> https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-symfony
>
> You can test it also:
>
> https://part-db.herokuapp.com/en/
>
> For me it looks promising, but I checked it only shortly.
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