Stefan Salewski wrote: > > Currently we (may) have different symbol files for the the same device > with different footprints. So we have the same graphics elements > multiple times. This is redundancy, wast of storage area, and it makes > it more work to modify the graphics. So it is not a perfect solution. > > And replacing a symbol in a schematic only because we want a different > footprint is not a very natural way for me. >
Right. To me, the symbols in a schematic are strictly that--- symbols. Why should I switch to a visually-identical symbol, just because the pin assignments underneath have changed? Maybe we're philosophically disagreeing on what a schematic diagram represents. I don't think of them as wiring diagrams, but as signal flow diagrams. PCB's job is to turn that into a wiring diagram. Or something like that. Apparently to some, schematics are also wiring diagrams. Cool. So put wiring information into your symbols. All of them. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user