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alexisvl
Connector library rewrite tracking issue
Placeholder: connector library rewrite. No need for endless variants of connector symbols with the same pin count; we can have a set of n-pin connectors and assign them footprints when used. This is one of the few times where KiCad's intended footprint assignment workflow would work well.
In addition to the new library of numbered-only connectors, I would like to keep the new conn-special-headers which is to contain variants of these with pin names already labeled. Example uses include programming ports for microcontrollers. These can have footprints assigned by default, but should also have the footprint filter filled in.
In order to use the footprint filters for connectors, we will have to make a standard footprint name format for headers and header-like connectors.
I dont think footprint filters is all that good a solution for connectors, cvpcb can filter by number of pins, that should be enough, specially if the functionality can be transplanted outside of it.
Meh, I disagree. I don't want to have every SOIC-8 and TSSOP-8 and whatnot come up for an eight pin header.
you can filter by library too, it would be useful to just keep each connector manufacturer/type separate as it mostly is already in the footprint library
You can still do that. All I want it to standardize on connector footprint names containing something that identifies them as n-pin connectors. Nothing wrong with also having them organized by manufacturer/type.