Hello Andy. > Don't specify the connector as signal and ground. In some cases that can > cause a few problems. GND is considered a power line for example.
Yes. Call it "Side" Contact or "Frame" or something. > Give your schematic part pin numbers, just 2 of them. > Use the same pin numbers for your footprint module. > For the 4 ground connections, give that all the same number. > > Note that this is the method used in the 2009 version, things might have > changed if you are using the later 2010 version of Kicad. (that did not > work on my SUSE system, hence i still use 2009) > So far i can see, this is the same in the Version from 06th. April 2010. I use it with Debian "Lenny". But for me, the meanings of the Pin-proppertys are allways a little bit confusing. Different sorts of inputs and outputs and so on. I am only shure with "not used" :-) Once i read a good text about this, but i wasnt able to find it again. :-( The next point is: when i create a footprint with more than one pad belonging to the same potential, and i give them all the same number, they appear in the board with airwires for connecting between them. If i make copper connections between them at the footprints, then i will see this airwires in the board again, and they will only disappear, if i connect them again at the board. Is there a way to switch off this already connected airwires? This would cause a way to create Modules of a bunch of parts. So you could reuse them on different boards. Of Course, there would be a minor problem with the annotation..... In a schematic, this works, when i use prefabrikated schematics as hierarschical sheets. Again, there it would be nice to give all devices at a hierachical sheet a certain prefix or suffix to the annotation number. No, i do NOT mean the reference. I mean something like :"R12-VReg-IV" which would mean Resistor number 12 at the hierarschical sheet VoltReg-IV. with best regards: Bernd wiebus alias dl1eic -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01
