Here is a good example of where such a feature would be very well received: https://forum.kicad.info/t/component-occupies-entire-page-newbie/5272/22
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > I second this suggestion. Numerous people have been proposing this for > quite a long time in IRC, it's a popular idea. A large number of parts > are configurable, and forcing the pins to be non-configurable makes ERC > pretty weak. > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:22:37PM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote: > > As far as I am aware, this ( > > https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg23302.html) is the > latest > > proposal for the new symbol format. > > > > Is this the case? > > > > Reading through this I have an idea that I think will be very useful. > > > > Currently each PIN can only have one TYPE (INPUT, OUTPUT, OPEN-COLLECTOR, > > etc) which means that for parts with multiple alternate-functions on a > pin, > > ERC is essentially useless if the pin can be used as an INPUT or an > OUTPUT > > (or something else). > > > > Further, labelling all the possible alternate functions on a pin means > that > > either the symbol grows exceedingly wide, or many functions are missed. > > > > I suggest that the pin type should have facility for alternate functions > to > > be specified which would solve both of these problems. Once a symbol is > > placed in the schematic, any multi-function pins are set to "default" > > values (e.g. GPIO for a micro) but the other functions can be selected. > > > > See proposed "addition" to format here: > > > > http://i.imgur.com/5m38eTT.png > > > > Cheers, > > Oliver > >
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