Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Salewski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:23 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?
> 
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> > > A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I 
> > > really recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but 
> one for 14, 
> > > and one for
> > > 16 pins devices. I think I called my one at gedasymbols 
> > > 74xx-14N-Pwr-1.sym.
> > 
> > But the 74LV4066 is 14-pin with GND at 7 and Vcc at 14, 
> just like an 
> > ordinary 7400 and more.
> > 
> 
> The problem is: If you have a symbol called 74_pwr.sym people 
> may use it
> -- some may use it for 14 pin devices, some may use it for 16 pin
> devices. You may be smart enough to use it correctly -- other may not
> always. If there are chances for confusion, then we should use more
> specific files names. 
> 
> 

JCL has a nice script generating power pins with pn numbers in the file/link
name:

http://www.luciani.org/geda/util/util-index.html#create-np-symbols

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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