On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:04 AM, John Doty <[1]...@noqsi.com> wrote:
On May 2, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: > I use a probably almost identical project symbol approach. If this is > high-productivity way I'd hate to see the alternative. Essentially, > everybody gets to continually reinvent the same heavy symbols. Its got > to be possible to do better than this. Reinvent the same symbols? Nah. There are trillions of possibilities for heavy symbols. It's unlikely two independently developed projects would have much in common here. Even my own projects tend not to have much overlap: different customers, different requirements, even different project phases. How much really changes for a chip resistor or SOIC uc? These things should take ZERO effort to get something pretty in gschem that will work with pcb. If people care about the exact mask settings and such they can tweak. I don't know about you, but customizing pre-existing symbols takes me very little time compared to the rest of the design process. Creating new ones from scratch takes more time, but between the gEDA library and [2]gedasymbols.org, there's often a starting point for anything truly common. If you have a reference design that you're trying to modify or extend getting a working set of symbols takes most of the time. And reference designs are the open source way. If people were reinventing the same heavy symbols, there'd be a high probability of finding a suitable heavy symbol on [3]gedasymbols.org. In practice, I find those symbols almost always need customization. But of course this shouldn't be surprising. Interestingly, I've looked at [4]gedasymbols.org briefly before and failed to find most of its content, since its hiding under the names of the contributors and in the search field. I concluded it had ended up as a footprint library. I'd suggest the following (heck I'll do it if someone wants to give me access): * Put the whole ball of symbols tarball under a Download section. * Or at least put the cvs checkout incantation somewhere on the page. I'm assuming you can check it all out without an account? Oh in fact poking around more I find this information under "ask for a CVS account" link. Again I'd be happy to clean this page up a bit. Britton References 1. mailto:j...@noqsi.com 2. http://gedasymbols.org/ 3. http://gedasymbols.org/ 4. http://gedasymbols.org/
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