Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-11 Thread Peter Wintulich
Hello, Normally the SMT is in 2 files. One for top side and one for bottom side. This would normally carry through for Through hole parts file as well. One of the reasons is the mirroring of the position coordinates for the bottom mounted components. For the assembly process the company we have b

Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
I would prefer at least 3 files. One for SMT devices. One for TH Insertion. One for hand placement. Or one file with an extra field (SMD, TH, HAND). Just an extra $0.02, Jean-Paul AC9GH > On May 11, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Andy Peters wrote: > >> >> On May 10, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrot

Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-11 Thread Andy Peters
> On May 10, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote: > > Andy, > > The distinction between SMD, TH and Hand-placed is VERY important, as a SMD > placement machine cannot handle TH parts and vice-versa. So you want to be > able to segregate the parts for each assembly step. > > Just my $0.02

Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-10 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Andy, The distinction between SMD, TH and Hand-placed is VERY important, as a SMD placement machine cannot handle TH parts and vice-versa. So you want to be able to segregate the parts for each assembly step. Just my $0.02. Jean-Paul AC9GH > On May 10, 2015, at 10:24 PM, Andy Peters wrote: >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-10 Thread Andy Peters
> On May 9, 2015, at 2:27 AM, jp charras wrote: > > Le 09/05/2015 00:08, Andy Peters a écrit : >> I was just skimming the kicad.info forum and a person had a question about >> why some parts did not end up in the position file needed for assembly. >> Another thread mentioned that that can be h

Re: [Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-09 Thread jp charras
Le 09/05/2015 00:08, Andy Peters a écrit : > I was just skimming the kicad.info forum and a person had a question about > why some parts did not end up in the position file needed for assembly. > Another thread mentioned that that can be handled by setting an “attribute” > for each part in pcbne

[Kicad-developers] Unclear documentation

2015-05-08 Thread Andy Peters
I was just skimming the kicad.info forum and a person had a question about why some parts did not end up in the position file needed for assembly. Another thread mentioned that that can be handled by setting an “attribute” for each part in pcbnew. So I looked it up. (It has not affected me becau