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Message #00471
Inductors and Chokes
Dear all!
I'm currently trying to rework the chokes/Inductors in the kicad-lib, as
I already did for resistors, capacitors and diodes. This will include
three major steps:
1. rename all inductors/chokes so their names start with L_ so it is
easier to match them
2. create clean and KLC-conforming footprints (using scripts)
3. create (semi-scripted) 3D models for all new footprints
This went through quite smoothely for caps and resistors, but with the
inductors I'm facing problems with the structure of the libs. Currently
we have a mess:
- Choke_Axial_ThroughHole.pretty
- Choke_Common-Mode_Wurth.pretty
- Choke_Radial_ThroughHole.pretty
- Choke_SMD.pretty
- Choke_Toroid_ThroughHole.pretty
- Inductors.pretty
- Inductors_NEOSID.pretty
- Transformers_CHK
- Transformers_SMPS_ThroughHole
I would really like to clean that up ... which would (IMHO leave with
this list of repos (and delete all above repos!):
- Inductors_ThroughHole.pretty
- Inductors_SMD.pretty
- Transformers_ThroughHole.pretty
- Transformers_SMD.pretty
... just maybe it would make sense to also have the common-mode chokes
in separate repos, but I'm not so sure this is really required!
Yes the libs would then be quite full (few 100 maybe in the case of
Inductors_*, but it is then easier to enforce a naming-scheme and have
people know where to submit new components.
What do you think? How can we go about this (generate libs, delete the
old ones, or do we simply rename them "_deprecated" or something?
Best,
JAN
PS: Since I'm currently home with not much to do (still this week ... a
flu got me), I could work on this if we get the repos up and running ...
+ I already have nice new footprints + 3D models ...
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