Some IC's have labels "IC" where others have "U"

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on June 28, 2010 13:21:38

treating "IC" and "U" as the same and generating the prefered would avoid having "IC1" and "U1" on the same circuit.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=1148

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on September 28, 2010 12:35:32

Labels: Component-Parts

[failiz]

I agree that it would be nice to standardize this. I personally prefer the U, I have never seen the IC label before. However, this issue should be moved to the part repository.

[mMerlin]

"Treating" IC and U the same would require a code change. Changing the labels to be consistent is a parts change. A quick grep across the fzp files in the core part library finds 98 parts with a label of "IC". 639 with a label of "U".

% grep -i "<label>IC<" core/* | wc -l                                     
98
% grep -i "<label>U<" core/* | wc -l 
639

A scan of the output for all labels shows several inappropriate values. Complete descriptions of the part, not a prefix to use for numbering them. Most of those should probably have a label of "MOD" (or "Mod").

grep "<label>" core/*