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[Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>]

13/08/14, 20:02, Kerusey Karyu kirjoitti:
>> Is there any reason to have various footprints such as 0805, 0603, etc.
>> for every component type?
>>
> There is one rational reason for this, but not such important: Board 3D
> presentation. Someone could use different models for resistors,
> capacitors and inductors.

There is no limitation as long as names contain a prefix for example.
Øyvind Aabling's libraries do it exactly like this and they work fine.
Various footprints are needed as metallization is different for R and C
and optimal pad geometry is different. Combining libraries is a good idea.

-Vesa