Today (and despite there is no draft zone) I was able to finish my first schematic and run Cvpcb. Its Automatic Association is indeed a great tool, so I learnt how to build the *.equ files. On the other side and for 25 years I used to assign the value of a resistor (not SMD) as ??R if Ohms or ??K if KOhms. And now I append the value with V or H for Vertical and Horizontal mounting and sometimes adding another letter (or more) to denote a specefic resistor as P5 (for 5W)... etc.
Therfore if I have understood well the format in *.equ, I need now to build a whole set of equivalent footprints for all possible values of a resistor and that set be repeated for every type; like *RH, *RV, *KH, *KV, *RHP5, *KVP5... etc. My wish is to write just one line for each category but that couldn't be done if wildcards are not allowed in the searching routine (included in Cvpcb). So I hope I will live till that dream becomes real :)
