Orson, Did you ever respond to Jon about this? I guess the question is whether or not to show invisible pins in the component chooser.
Cheers, Wayne On 1/15/2018 9:31 PM, Jon Evans wrote: > Hi Orson, patch is attached again, hopefully it goes through this time. > > Thanks, > Jon > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:24 AM, Rene Pöschl <poesc...@gmail.com > <mailto:poesc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 15/01/18 10:00, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > > Perhaps we should have an ERC rule > that warns about invisible pins being connected to a wire, any > thoughts? > > > Invisible pins are used for three distinct applications. > > The first one is to remove clutter by hiding pins that should not be > connected. ERC will complain if you connect such pins if they have the > electrical type "Not connected". > > The second application is to create "power labels". A invisible power > input pin is handled as a global label. These pins are meant to be > connected. > > The third application is again to remove clutter by stacking pins. Here > you have one visible pin and several other invisible pins at the same > location. (Normally all these pins have the same name and electrical > type. With the exception of power input pins, power output pins and > output pins.) > Such pins are again meant to be connected. > > This means a ERC rule that complains about connecting hidden pins will > create too many false positives. Having a lot of false positives means > users will start to ignore ERC output. > > It might be a good idea to have a symbol checker that complains if > invisible pins are used differently than i described above. > In other words: complain for invisible pins if they are not part of a > stack or of types NC or power input. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > 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 : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
