On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/26/2015 6:49 AM, jp charras wrote: > > Le 26/01/2015 02:46, Carl Poirier a écrit : > >> Hi MIchal, > >> > >> This is the wording I have for now. > >> > >> 6.11. Doc property contains a full description of footprint. > >> 6.12. Keywords are separated by spaces. > >> 6.13. Reference is filled with footprint name. > > > > Perhaps better fill value with footprint name. > > Using the footprint name as the default value field makes sense to me. > I would also like to see visibility of the default value field set to > hidden. I don't think I've ever seen a board with component values on > the silkscreen layers. I know I've never the luxury of that much extra > room on any boards that I've designed. >
That makes sense to me, but indeed we need to change the default values. > > > > Reason: reference is usually a short word (like Uxxx). > > Value and footprint name are usually a more long name (like 330K-1% or > > BGA_0.5_128x128). > > So, the default values (which will be replaced by they actual values) > > are more representative of these actual texts. > > > > Also, avoid too long names for fp names and 3d shape names. They always > > create issues. > > Please consider this advice. There are some footprint names that are > really long which makes displaying them less than ideal. I'm not saying > there will never be long footprint file names, I suggesting that we make > them no long than necessary. I don't see revision and date information > in the file name as necessary. Add this to the description field if needed. > Eradicating revision and date from footprint names has been mostly done by Dick already. > > > > Just my 2 cents, or, if you prefer, my 2€ (looks like the same, now). > > > >> 6.14. Attributes is set to the appropriate value, see tooltip for more > >> information. > >> 6.15. All other properties are left to default values. (Value: VAL**, Move > >> and Place: Free; Auto Place: 0 and 0, Local Clearance Values: 0) > >> 6.16. 3D Shape ".wrl" files are named the same as their footprint and are > >> placed in a folder named the same as the footprint library without the > >> ".pretty". > > > > Perhaps the folder could be named the same as the footprint library > > without the ".pretty" but with something like *.3dshapes or _3dshapes* > > > > This is more easy to filter and list with fp lib wizard. > > > > Wayne, what is your opinion? > > I'm OK with either .3dshapes or _3dshapes for the model paths that we > provide. > .3dshapes sounds good to me. > > > > >> > >> For the text size, I'll have to check for the default value. If it's not > >> 1mm, I'll ask to make it the default. > > Whatever size you make the default text, please do this for all symbols > including the power symbols. As of right now the default text sizes are > all over the place. This is really bad for power symbols because you > cannot edit power symbol fields in Eeschema. Yes, you can edit the > schematic file by hand or modify the power symbol library but neither > solution is friendly. > For symbols, it's been decided a good while ago that text size was 50mils. The question here was for value and reference in footprints. Right now the default is 1.5mm. > >> > > > > Carl and all contributors to the Kicad Libraries: Thanks! > > I know this is a hard work, with very few reward from users. > > > > Thank you Carl for taking the lead on this. > > You are welcome. I have got a hand from some other members for elaborating the convention, mainly Lorenzo, Jean-Paul and John. Kerusey has helped a lot approving pull requests and contributing as well as Michał Stec more recently.
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