On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:20 PM James Jackson
wrote:
> I would really have liked the ability to only automatically annotate
> either a selected block of components, and/or only a subset of the
> component types.
>
For reference, see https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2209.
Eeli
Replying to the enumerated items asked of me, even though it's not the most
recent email.
James,
3. You have two options.
But first, I forgot one other point about the ref des pattern feature. You
can also put in a static character. So I could make my ref des pattern
'1' to
start with R101 and
Hi James,
few months ago I implemented "update schematic from pcb" feature, and
I think it's a little bit similar to feature you want to make. I'm not
very often work with KiCad source, but if you don't have better person
to ask, feel free to ask me.
First of all - there's major change in
Evan,
That's really helpful - thank you for taking the time to put that
together. I've got a few comments and queries:
1. All in, that seems like (on the whole) incredibly sensible behaviour,
even if the implementation / UI is sometimes painful!
2. The possibility of package locking also
Thanks Jon - I don't have access to Altium so that's really helpful.
I was wondering about the possibility of locking components; I sometimes
want to do this with, for example, key ICs - MCUs, DACs, etc. One could add
this as a Symbol Property, which wouldn't need any changes to file formats.
Altium doesn't have "annotate selected"
It does let you lock the annotation on components at will, so you can lock
some, reset everything (which ignores locked) and then re-annotate.
If you change the annotation of one part of a multi-part component, it will
result in two components being
That's an interesting take on it. I can foresee the catastrophic addition
of loads of other components though, if there's an error in the schematic
somewhere and a rogue missing / one-over unit gets cascaded down sheets.
What do other EDA tools do with annotation? Do they have this feature? Do
Thanks Jeff - I'll take a look at a nightly to see where things are now.
Sounds like a much better selection strategy too!
Jean-Pierre - You're quite right to highlight these complications, which
I've been mulling over myself. I don't yet have proposed solutions, but I'm
going to give it a good
Le 07/05/2020 à 20:15, Jeff Young a écrit :
> Hi James,
>
> You might first want to download one of the nightlies (5.99) and play with
> it. Block selections are gone: eeschema now has a “normal” selection model
> where you click on things and/or drag-select and they get highlighted.
>
> So
Hi James,
You might first want to download one of the nightlies (5.99) and play with it.
Block selections are gone: eeschema now has a “normal” selection model where
you click on things and/or drag-select and they get highlighted.
So from the GUI perspective you’d just need to add the options
Brian,
Great to know that I'm not the only one who thought it a useful addition.
Really happy to collaborate, and to try and unpick those issues. As I'm not
the KiCad dev it'll take me a little while to figure out the code flow, but
no harm in having a crack. Great if you were able to bring your
Hello James
I had been working on this for some time and ran into a brick wall so I
set it aside.
There seems to be an issue with the structures used within eeSchema
(sheets, screens, etc.) which don't seem to consistently track UUIDs,
etc. I suspect that this may be because eeSchema
Hi all,
Firstly thanks Wayne for adding me to the list - long time KiCad user for
hobby stuff, but I've got a background (partially) in fast real-time
mixed-signal electronics.
Working on a fairly large personal project recently, with many nested and
shared schematics, I would really have liked
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