I'm not sure why power symbols would be re-annotated. Maybe JP could shed some light on this. It does seem odd that power symbols are annotated differently than non-power symbols.
On 7/10/2017 2:06 PM, José Ignacio wrote: > I've noticed another annoying churn in eeschema, when annotating the > schematics power flags get re-annotated even if they already had refs > assigned from before and the annotate command is not set to overwrite. I > don't know if it does it all the time but it does it fairly often in my > experience. > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Forward compatibility is highly unlikely given our limited manpower. > > There is a fundamental misunderstanding about net names. Pcbnew does > not have anything to do with naming them. Pcbnew on reads the net names > from the net list. The net names are generated by Eeschema and passed > to Pcbnew so the issue is with Eeschema. Currently, Eeschema does not > save undefined (unlabeled) net names. It automatically renumbers them > each time a new netlist is generated. One work around is to label every > net in Eeschema using some type of label. I do this so I know which > signals I'm routing. I've never found net names such as N-##### very > useful. > > I am considering saving automatically assigned net names in the new > schematic file format but that is still uncertain at this point. > > On 7/10/2017 11:26 AM, José Ignacio wrote: > > The problem is that you can't make old kicad read the new format, unless > > a patch gets backported. > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark > > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > Could we not support reading both formats, but only write one > format? > > > > - Kristoffer > > > > > > On 2017-07-10 09:36, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > > > > I think there is a lot of code that assumes consecutive net > > numbering. > > Instead, we could simply save net names instead of net numbers > > and let > > KiCad use net codes as convenient. One significant problem > is it > > would > > cause the .kicad_pcb file format change, making it completely > > unreadable > > by the current stable. > > > > Regards, > > Orson > > > > On 07/01/2017 04:49 AM, hauptmech wrote: > > > > > > We have a fairly complex board that needs to be done > > yesterday. We've > > been experimenting with simultaneous editing of the > pcb with > > moderate > > success. > > > > We are using git. Each person works in a different area of > > the board, > > and we merge the results periodically. > > > > Because of the time crunch, we are only focusing on what > > works in this > > process, and staying away from edits that do not work. > > Moving footprints > > and laying tracks works fine. > > > > A couple things I've noticed that could improve things: > > > > net indexes of nets are not stable. Maybe > > eeschema/netlist.cpp:369 > > Maybe we could wait until we get close to running out of > > integers before > > we do this? > > > > module order gets changed in some edits (Not sure but > > probably "fix > > module file details and update modules in pcb" type > edits). > > Ordering > > modules by reference would fix this. > > > > > > We are getting enough benefit that we'll keep refining the > > technique. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>> > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
