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wasted ability to choose different footprints?

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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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  • I'm not trying to copy parameters across and you can edit them in the properties window without opening the actual property. I've never tried copying from the components list across to another library but copying and pasting sections of symbol from a workspace in one library to another or component of the same library does not work.

     

    I don't know if I'd want AD, CS is not exactly a good advertisement for software that costs £5000. The £800 is steep enough as it is. It is 25-30% more expensive than Proteus which although very convoluted to use (which is why I switched) is rock solid and I could ring up and get support over the phone. They also didn't seem to have problems with different resolution screens like CS does.

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  • I'm not trying to copy parameters across and you can edit them in the properties window without opening the actual property. I've never tried copying from the components list across to another library but copying and pasting sections of symbol from a workspace in one library to another or component of the same library does not work.

     

    I don't know if I'd want AD, CS is not exactly a good advertisement for software that costs £5000. The £800 is steep enough as it is. It is 25-30% more expensive than Proteus which although very convoluted to use (which is why I switched) is rock solid and I could ring up and get support over the phone. They also didn't seem to have problems with different resolution screens like CS does.

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