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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

This has been committed.

BTW, is there any particular reason to having the value field of a
footprint default to "VAL**", besides indicating it has not been set ? I'll
have to add that to the convention.

I ask because I noticed I had put rule "1.6. The Value field must be
prefilled with the object name." in the general rules, whereas I believe it
applies only to symbols. Actually most of them if not all are filled with
the reference designator by default.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Let's use the full name, then. So here are the adjustments:
>
> 2. Symbol Library Names (.lib files)
> ------------------------------------
>
> 2.1. Manufacturer.
> 2.2. Category or family of parts. ex: "Capacitors", "Spartan6", etc.
>
>
> 4. Symbol Names
> ---------------
>
> 4.1. Name of symbol, may be shortened for common components or use
> reference designator of the symbol (IEEE 315-1975). ex: "Conn_4x2", "C"etc.
> 4.2. Manufacturer.
> 4.3. Part number, including extension for specific footprint. (JEDEC for
> common devices, ex: 1N4001)
> 4.4. Any modification to the original footprint, indicated by appending
> the reason. Ex: different pin ordering: "transistor_PNP_pinswap1"
>  4.5. Indication of quantity if symbol is an array. ex: resistor array:
> "Resistor_x8"
>
> Any other comments?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Kerusey Karyu <keruseykaryu@xxxxx> wrote:
>
>> W dniu 25.07.2014 19:29, Carl Poirier pisze:
>>
>>
>> > In this case it's not much of a problem because the extra letters
>> > indicating the footprint are official names from the datasheet. But
>> > are there cases where a part is manufactured in many packages and
>> > doesn't have a distinction for it in the name?
>> >
>> >
>> I have never encountered a case where a major manufacturer does not
>> define precise name for a specific version of a device. Sometimes they
>> (eg Texas Instruments) are even very overzealous in this topic.
>>
>> It seems to me that this can happen only in the case of small
>> manufacturers from the Far East, producing own things or something
>> under license (or not :-). Although, I put a pair of elements of
>> lesser-known manufacturers in the libraries and a problem in their
>> naming doesn't occurred.
>>
>>
>> Kerusey Karyu
>>
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