Ahh, haha. In the USA, electronic design engineers have been using inches (with 0603 meaning 0.06 by 0.03 inches) to describe surface mount resistors and capacitors. Folks in other countries have probably always been using metric. But I've noticed that recently digikey.com (a popular supplier of low-volume electronic parts in the USA) is listing the metric sizes in parenthesis after the inch sizes for their standard 0201/0402/0603/0805 sizes. [1]http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=65769;stoc k=1;rohs=1;pbfree=1 0201 (0603 metric) 0402 (1005 metric) 0603 (1608 metric) and so on is how digikey does it. (Digikey does still list these parts by their inch as the primary name, but provides the metric as a secondary.) So what the primary standard is depends on whether you're in the USA. I'm in the USA but most gEDA developers probably are not. DJ Delorie wrote:
Why in gods name would some one call a footprint 0603 when it is really an 0201. Nobody uses a metric name for resistors or capacitors. You folks are asking for trouble. It's not us, it's the international standards. We're microscopic fish in a galaxy-sized pond. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] [3]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- Nikola Engineering Inc. 224 W. Washington St. Suite 104 Sequim, WA 98382-3371 Tel (360)582-1051 Fax (360)582-1104 References 1. http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=65769;stock=1;rohs=1;pbfree=1 2. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 3. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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