On 9 January 2017 at 14:29, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason you can't use Template Field Names for this: > http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/eeschema.html# > options-of-the-schematic-editor > > This allows you to specify fields that are common to all symbols that you > create. If the value is anything other than blank, the field is saved with > the symbol. > Yes, at this point I was suggesting adding standard template field names. But following further thought I have decided to try to organize the community of external tooling creators to agree on some standard fieldnames and a schema for them. I will post here with updates on that. > The easiest way to specify multiples is probable to suffix with a number, > like Manufacturer-1, PartNumber-1, Manufacturer-2, PartNumber-2, etc. > Is there actually any issue, internally to KiCAD, with creating multiple fields with the same name? It seems to let me create two fields called MPN and save and re-open without a problem.
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