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Standardize the part labels

Open failiz opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

We should have a document that specifies how a part type should be referenced (label in Fritzing). Right now the parts have different labels depending on who created them. For example, there are integrated circuits with IC and U labels. There are motors with M labels but there are a few parts that also use the M label (e.g., FC-51-IR-Sensor, I guess that there are). I just realized this when in my course I discovered some students confused (they thought that the motor I had in my slides was their IR sensor as they had the same name, "M1" ).

Some useful links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_designator https://www.eevblog.com/forum/eda/reference-designator-for-components/ Kicad convention: https://klc.kicad.org/symbol/s6/s6.1/

Could we start defining this? I would like to fix the IR sensor, but I want to avoid every person taking their own standard. I would suggest A for assemblies, as discussed in https://forum.fritzing.org/t/suggestions-for-additional-documentation/15135/2 . In fact, my pull request of the H bridge uses A as a label, but it is the only part with that label...

I would recommend starting from Kikad convention and adapting it slightly to minimize the changes in Fritzing. For example, keeping LED as the designator for LEDs.

failiz avatar Mar 08 '23 15:03 failiz