Ted Huntington escreveu: > I'm still not understanding the idea behind labeling each pin by type > (power out/in) - in particular, I have capacitors as passive - but then > I get - "power pin not driven" at the GND power device.
That is a Kicad "quirk", a point where Kicad is very different from most others. It has some aditional security and not too dificult to use but very badly explained... The point is that instead of having on type called "Power", kicad has TWO: "Power in" and "Power out". Then a "power in" has obviously to be driven by *some* "Power out" pin. Not doing so is an error!! If you use a component like LM7805, the outpout pin is (should) be defined as "Power out" and all is well. If you ar not using such a device, ther is an extra "power out" device called "PWR_FLAG" that you can connect to your power line and the rule will be satisfied. Alain > I can't believe > that there would need to be a different capacitor for each kind of > connection (power out, power in, ...) - and the same is true for > terminals - for example on a 24 pin terminal some of the pins might be > inputs other outputs - I guess people need to make a specific device for > each configuration of input/output pins they want to use for some > particular PCB? > > Sometimes in PCBNew I'm getting DRC errors even when pins are connected- > possibly from changing the net names. Can somebody verify that adding a > global net label anywhere in the connection labels every net in the > connection, where a normal net label only labels a single segment? > > thanks > Ted
