What should we do with the wire pads footprint lib?

[poeschlr]

The test point lib has been transferred in https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-footprints/pull/52 The question about the wire pads lib has been raised in that pull request already.

[SchrodingersGat]

I think that wire pads are functionally separate from e.g. test points, so we should add a new library e.g. WirePad

[poeschlr]

I found an old discussion where you suggested the name Connector_Wire. (Would make more sense.) https://github.com/KiCad/Wire_Pads.pretty/issues/5

I think i will for now use that name for it.

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In that issue the deprecated lib Wire Connection Bridges is mentioned. From the discussion i would amuse you meant to give it the name Connector_Jumper? (But under jumper i would understand this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsiJ3.jpg not https://circuitmaker.com/forum/posts/216769) I think in that case Wire_Bridge would be better. In addition i don't think we currently have any true wire bridge footprints in our lib. I guess a better idea would be for users to use vias and unused copper layer(s) to document the connections. (This would allow for doing this without needing to add a symbol to the schematic.)

In any case i think that particular discussion can wait until somebody does indeed contribute such a footprint.

[SchrodingersGat]

The way I see it, Connector_ implies that some external "thing" will connect to the PCB. Jumpers do not fit this category IMO. By Jumpers I mean:

[evanshultz]

To me, "wire pad" means a THT (very rarely a SMD) pad to which a wire is soldered. There is no other discrete component, just the wire.

In my vocabulary, here are the names of the items in the pictures above from top to bottom:

• Testpoint or testpad
• Jumper (this does not have a symbol or footprint since it fits on a header)
• Solder short
• Either a soldered jumper/bridge or a high-current, low-impedance sense resistor
• Either another soldered jumper/bridge or a high-current, low-impedance sense resistor

I agree that wire pads are a separate category and different from any of the pictures above. If I see a library named WirePad I would expect to see plated THTs named by either mm or AWG for fitting one or more wires.

[myfreescalewebpage]

@poeschlr @SchrodingersGat @evanshultz WirePad I have seen Connector_Wire has been created following this issue, do you still need to keep it opened ? Else I suggest the topic should be closed. Joel

[evanshultz]

I'm fine to close this then. However, I notice at least some (I didn't check all) seem to have converted dimensions because the names are "clean" mm sizes but the actual pad sizes have loads of significant digits.

[myfreescalewebpage]

Great catch, maybe something we can fix with a PR, I know several footprint have this problem... Some improvements of the travis checks for F5.3 (http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/klc/F5.3/) should be great to check that:

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