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wasted ability to choose different footprints?

Sparkylabs

The ability to assign multiple footprints to a part is nice but it immediately creates a conflict for BOM's as supplier links or other ordering information entered into the parts "parameters" become useless as for example I could create an opamp part and assign both DIP8 and SOIC8 footprints to it but there is as far as I know, no way to assign different parameters based on footprints. Is this correct or is there some functionality I don't know about?

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  • Well if that is the case the only way to keep them separate is to have separate symbols which is a little silly as now the the schematic symbol library is no longer driven by part functionality but by both part functionality and footprint. I rather liked the idea of being able to place a part and then alter the footprint if required, but it makes no sense.

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    A difficult subject but given that footprints can be shared amongst many different symbols it would not make sense to be attaching parameters to the footprint as you wouldn't know the symbol. It's not a big job to have unique symbols for each footprint style if that's how you want to work, you can copy and paste the symbol and tweak the parameters to suit the footprint you assign.

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  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    A difficult subject but given that footprints can be shared amongst many different symbols it would not make sense to be attaching parameters to the footprint as you wouldn't know the symbol. It's not a big job to have unique symbols for each footprint style if that's how you want to work, you can copy and paste the symbol and tweak the parameters to suit the footprint you assign.

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