Hi Im new here and off to a REALY bad start by raising a dead thread. (Pr0toc01 plays his Thread Necromancer card, everyone sighs and shakes their head in disgust
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Im of two minds on this.
I like the fact that I can just drop a capacitor on a schematic and enter the value for it without having to go looking through the library for the one with exactly the specs I need.
On the other hand there have been times where i have ended up using values for components that just dont exist / nobody makes (hey im self taught, leave me alone)
I like flexibility, but I also like knowing im not going to design something that cant actually be made unless I rework everything due to bad part values.
Would it be possible for someone far mopr familiar with KiCad then myself to basically add a "KNOWN VALUES" option.
So you have your schematic symbol, you have your foot print, you have your model, you have your Documentation file and then you have a file containing information about known manufactured components.
Lets take resistors.
So you have your --|/\/\/\|-- symbol that you put down
you hit V click it and in the EDIT VALUE window you get a list (like in the add part window) with known REAL WORLD value combinations for that resistor (10k 1% 1/4w) that also contains manufacturer name, part number etc?
OR just manually enter the information (and have it ask if you want to save it to the list)
This would give you the flexibility to use known real world values, or type them in on the fly as you go without the need for creating a new part in the library for every value combination...
Its just a thought, and im not familiar enough with the code of KiCAD to try to make this work myself.
Again, sorry about raising a dead thread