I hate to be "this guy" (https://xkcd.com/1172/), but I purposefully connect more than one label to each net.
For example, many of my schematics that have a "chip down Arduino" on them have an Atmega328 schematic symbol, with Arduino-style labels like D13 and A0 on the nets. Then, I have a section where I have wires with labels on each end, that make the logical connection between the peripherals and the 328p. This is also a place where I include notes on pinswap options if I am not the person who routes the board. There's probably a better way to do this, but it has worked for me and I have also "seen it in the wild" quite a bit as well. If this were to be a warning, it would probably need to be something I could turn off. Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer W&L On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM, André S. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Some time ago I stumpled across a behavior of kicad that I find at least > annoying if not error producing. > > KiCAD does not generate a warning when a net has two (or more) labels > attached to the same net. This is true for global labels and also for power > labels. > In one of my designs this caused kicad to connect an un-hidden power pin > of some library part on a named net to a different actually "VCC" named net > (see also bug 1443050). > > I suggest that kicad generates at least a warning when one net has more > than one label. > > Also: kicad chooses one of the labels for naming the net in the netlist. > It seems it uses the last applied label. I think this should be set by the > user. > If there are indeed people that use different labels for the same net, I > think they would be glad to be able to pick the name for the netlist (and > therefore for the PCB). For others like me this would be the chance to > correct this error. > > What do you think about this? > > On a side note: I think kicad did not connect un-hidden pins to VCC in > older versions (around 2012). > > Best regards, > André > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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