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[Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>]

13/08/14, 20:43, Carl Poirier kirjoitti:
> So you mean having the "Passive_SMD.pretty", but having in it
> "C_0805.kicad_mod", "R_0805.kicad_mod" and so on? Why would this be
> better than having them in "Capacitors_SMD.pretty" and
> "Resistors_SMD.pretty", along with other SMD footprints?

Beacause we need the prefix anyway and just having a separate library
for each of them is too granular for my taste. The taste part is not
really a valid argument though :)

In effect such combination will just shorten the lib-table and that was
the original suggestion, wasn't it? I really don't have too strong
opinion in a way or another, but I'd eventually like to see libraries
working without much fiddling around and being well manageable.

-Vesa


> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx
> <mailto:vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
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