2018-01-10 20:45 GMT+01:00 Rene Pöschl <poesc...@gmail.com>: > On 10/01/18 19:54, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > >> Hi Wayne, >> >> If the remapping algorithm cannot find the exact library match which >>>>> is currently being used (and should be in the project library list or >>>>> the cache) to provide the symbol, then there is no way to determine >>>>> the correct library and therefore cannot be remapped. It also means >>>>> that your schematic is already broken. This is why you should not >>>>> skip the rescue feature. >>>>> >>>> I can't quite remember if I skipped the rescue dialog (quite possibly), >>>> but I can imagine a user (such as me) would reason that there is no need >>>> for rescueing symbols into a rescue library, since all symbols are >>>> available in their newly set lib table. >>>> >>> The symbols in your legacy schematic are almost certainly not in the new >>> symbol library table given the recent changes to the symbol libraries. >>> >> I was under the impression that symbols mostly got moved around, and >> only some of them got renamed, but perhaps that impression is wrong. >> >> Very few symbols them selves have been renamed. We mainly moved them > around to other libs. > I don't know exactly how the remapping would handle that case. But worst > case you can switch over to the new lib using a kicad 4 release and do the > remapping after you transferred over to the new lib. (Don't try to do both > at once. There is just more that can go wrong that way.) > > Be careful with libs that have symbols with invisible power pins in them. > (logic libs) We eliminated these type of symbols and changed them to have a > separate unit for the power pins. (Sadly ERC will not complain if you don't > place the power unit down. So if you update to the new symbols and forget > to manually place the power unit you will get a pcb that has ICs in there > that are not connected to power.)
This last past paragraph sounds like a bug in the ERC. Without thinkting too much about this use case, I think people would expect the ERC to complain if only a partial symbol was added to the shematic.
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