There are two ways to search for a part for a PCB. You can search based on its function or you can search based on it’s manufacturer. I tried creating a set of cmpcats to add the ability to search for parts by manufacturer to the LibrePCB libraries. I created a ROOT level cmpcat named “Manufacturer…

I also thought about that a long time ago. But IMHO somehow it feels wrong to use component categories to group by manufacturers. Categories and manufacturers are two completely independent properties of a library element and thus should be handled separately I think. There was already the idea to …

Metadata or keywords would probably work. This is mainly an issue for digital ICs and would not be needed for most other parts

CMPCATs for Manufacturers

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dbrgn April 13, 2020, 10:37pm 3

@ouabache would a manufacturer metadata field for devices work for your use case, given that there’s also a filter for the manufacturers (potentially with autocomplete)?

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