On 30/10/2014 08:50, Marco Ciampa wrote:
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
In the case the object is part of an assembly (have a designator, value,
reference, footprint...) I would name it Component, not module.
I think calling "Component" both the schematic parts and the pcb parts
is the right way to go.
a symbol = a generic graphic for schematic
a footprint = a generic graphic for pcb
a component = a graphic with a meaning (value, reference, etc.) for schematic
and PCB
right?
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