On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:22:34AM +0100, Benoît Roehr wrote: > Beware here, they are not footprint anymore when they are on the > board, have a value, a reference and so on... They are components. > > Footprint is the right term for the standalone "print" a component > will drop on a PCB. You can name them so in the footprint library, > in the component propriety and so on... In the PCB editor, this > object is a Components and should be named so.
Ok, clear, thank you very much for the explanation. So we have: a symbol = a generic graphic for schematic a component = a graphic with a meaning (value, reference, etc.) for schematic a footprint = a generic graphic for pcb a module = a graphic with a meaning (value, reference, etc.) for pcb right? -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
