Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 2, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:

>  I use a probably almost identical project symbol approach.  If this is
>   high-productivity way I'd hate to see the alternative.  Essentially,
>   everybody gets to continually reinvent the same heavy symbols.  Its got
>   to be possible to do better than this.

Reinvent the same symbols? Nah. There are trillions of possibilities for heavy symbols. It's unlikely two independently developed projects would have much in common here. Even my own projects tend not to have much overlap: different customers, different requirements, even different project phases.

I don't know about you, but customizing pre-existing symbols takes me very little time compared to the rest of the design process. Creating new ones from scratch takes more time, but between the gEDA library and gedasymbols.org, there's often a starting point for anything truly common.

If people were reinventing the same heavy symbols, there'd be a high probability of finding a suitable heavy symbol on gedasymbols.org. In practice, I find those symbols almost always need customization. But of course this shouldn't be surprising.

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




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