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

I moved that rule 1.6 away and into the symbols section.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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