Timmerman, Bert wrote:
Hi all,
OTOH: if you are building a "heavy" symbols library you could start with the
"Landpattern Naming Convention" (that is, if this is a defacto industry standard).
Renaming the landpattern in the pcb (newlib) will probably follow some day.
I always wondered why the pcb element names in the library (oldlib or newlib)
do not conform to this IPC standard.
Just my EUR 0.02
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
Because many of the footprints in pcb pre-date the IPC standard by many
years? And in fact, the passives like 1206, 0603, etc, in ~geda do in
fact conform to the standard both in names and in sizes.
Long term I'd love to see a "complete" IPC-7351 footprint library. For
heavy symbols, I do think thats the way to go. I know of some people
who use gschem as a frontend for PADS and if we want to have any chance
at all of a schematic being able to drive PADS or PCB, I think you
simply must follow that naming convention.
-Dan
