| ID: | 4476 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:07:37 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints |
| in-reply-to: | 4473 from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
| replies: | 4477 from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --722076672-2092784033-1603796857=:3584 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Majenko Technologies wrote: >should be liaising with people like SnapEDA to help them build export >modules for their systems to directly create lihata files. It would be more >convenient for us, plus give us more exposure through the name being visible >on big platforms alongside other EDA names... Last time I checked them: I think they have some internal tool and format they use to produce they footprints (and symbols and other data). I think this internal model is richer than the data model of the EDA tools they export to - sort of what we do with pcb-rnd's data model, a superset of the others. I think they do not share the internal model or the tools. So the only chance to get lihata (or tEDAx) support is to convince them to code it. I don't say it's impossible, but knowing our market coverage and knowing how much effort it takes to code such a converter _properly_, I wouldn't have high hopes. Nevertheless, my policy is, and always have been: I fully support such cooperations; as a pcb-rnd power user, if you want to use such a workflow, you are in the best position to start this cooperation. Contanct them, figure if they are open in general. If they are, I am too, and I can support them coding their stuff. On the ringdove side, I prefer edakrill to spaneda. We could spin it up if we could get users like you to start sharing footprints and symbols on edakrill. What snapeda seems to provide over edakrill: 1. they have a large collection - but we can have a large collection too, if people submit their footprints 2. they have a service so that if you pay, they draw you the footprint - but we surely can have that too, there are pcb-rnd user freelancers on this list 3. they have self defined standards, I think they do all their material to follow those, so you know what to expect - but if there are enough _active_ contributors in edakrill, we can make our own standards too and just tag the footprints/symbols that comply with specific standards with the ID of the standard, so we can very easily have the same. Regards, Igor2 --722076672-2092784033-1603796857=:3584--
Reply subtree:
4476 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
4477 Re: [pcb-rnd] KiCad footprints from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk>
4480 [pcb-rnd] edakrill and snapeda (was: Re: KiCad footprints) from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
4482 Re: [pcb-rnd] edakrill and snapeda (was: Re: KiCad footprints) from Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com>