On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:35 PM, kai-martin knaak <k...@familieknaak.de> wrote: > PS: (*) Would a general switch of "element" to "footprint" receive a > warm welcome by the developers? This would provide more consistency > between geda and pcb wording. >
I've always thought of the "footprint" as the definition and the "element" as the instantiation of the footprint. I think it would be confusing to call the pcb element a footprint. Would I say there are twenty 0603 footprints on a board? No, there is just one 0603 footprint in use, and it is used 20 times to make 20 elements. Just a different perspective from a user, but I could be out in left field. Jared _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user