X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <5239E54C.2080706@buffalo.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:39:24 -0400 From: "Stephen R. Besch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Heavy Symbols References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: X: 10% Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com On 09/18/2013 01:16 PM, Rob Butts wrote: > I know this is a much discussed subject but I haven't followed it much and > reading the results of a search is confusing this non-guru-linux user. > > I was just about to locate the resistor symbol to make my own version with > attributes of footprint, part number, digikey part number... > > Does this exist? > There are 2 questions posed here. First, is there a symbol for a resistor in the standard library? Yes there is. Look in the MISC category and pick one of those as a staring point. The other question is: Does any one already have such a customized resistor symbol? The answer to this is also yes. However, since attribute preferences and component style will differ, you're probably better off rolling your own. I would also suggest that you add your custom attributes to the gschemrc file located the .gEDA folder found in your home directory. Then when you click on the attribute Drop down when adding an attribute, your custom choices will be there. This has 2 advantages: 1) You don't have to type them every time, and 2) it avoids having slight differences in the spelling of the attributes when constructing parts. gschemrc is also where you define the location of your custom component library(s). So, you would add something like this: (component-library "${HOME}/gaf/your_local-sym_directory") (attribute-name "Vendor") (attribute-name "VendorPN") (attribute-name "Manufacturer") -- fictio cedit veritati