Chip footprints with varying IPC density about kicad-footprint-generator HOT 6 OPEN

Do you plan on including these different density level footprints in the official lib? Because if yes then you might want to ask this over on the footprint repo.

The generators already come with a --density option that allows overwriting the chosen density for all generated footprints so users can generate them quite easily. I could add a suffix to them but would make it probably longer than what you suggest (Something like _Density<M|N|L> could be an option, this suffix should then not be used for the 3d model as it will be reusable. This would fit the general syntax we normally use. Alternatively with a dash: _Density-<M|N|L>)

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Yes, my thought was to introduce them into the official lib using some suffix as noted above. I know I can generate them easily but I wanted to ask about the footprint name first because that would affect the footprint name.

This repo seemed reasonable to me because you may be the person to know and care most about naming. I can ask over at the footprint repo, but what is the objective? The same questions I asked about or is there a specific audience you want to reach with a specific question?

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The reason to have discussions about that on the correct repo is such that users can (at least in theory) add their voice. Kicad is community driven and it just kind of feels wrong to have a discussion in some hidden place (this repo is not really part of kicad at this point in time.)

I assume you are aware that adding different densities would triple the library size (If we add more then one then we might as well add all 3). This would mean dfn/qfn is then suddenly 1200 files. (ok a bit less as not all of them are scripted -> i hope to change that sometime in the future.)

For v6 we will then definitely need to split it. (At least along dfn and qfn, possible even more.)

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Sure thing. I've posted KiCad/kicad-footprints#1836.

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My next bigger project will be an improved footprint naming manager. The format string stuff is simply a mess that needs fixing. As well as a proper IPC settings handler so the scripts will get this possibility in some not too distant future.

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Sounds great!

I would like to see #438 merged to build C, L, and R footprints with unique body sizes, and then I'm happy to take a crack at this.

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