Re: gEDA-user: taking issue with Symbol creation

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:02 PM, phil wrote:

> So really the pinseq is the pin number ... and pinnumber is just an
> alternate pinlabel, a qualitative UI attribute.

In most flows, pinnumber must match the pin number on the footprint  
the layout program uses. But some parts (commonly connectors) don't  
designate pins numerically. A1, A2, ...

>
> Is pinnumber the human appendix of geda?  Or does it fulfill some role
> that pinseq and pinlabel cannot?

Pinlabel is for humans, and for hierarchy. Pinseq is a unique  
numerical identifier for the "pin", independent of the footprint if  
any (not all symbols correspond to parts with footprints).

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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