On 12/07/18 16:20, jp charras wrote:
Le 12/07/2018 à 16:04, Rene Pöschl a écrit :
Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which use
more then one power
supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden power pins are not the way to
go! The fix for this
bug must come from a different side then reintroducing hidden power pins.
These pins can be visible instead of hidden, just visible power and common to
all units.
How well defined is the behavior of kicad if multiple of these
duplicated pins are connected to different nets? (Is the behavior what
users would expect?)
And additionally: A schematic just looks bad if you have unconnected
pins on some units. (How can a user explain these unconnected pins their
boss?)
Having the power pins as a separate unit is the way most other EDA tools
go. This allows users to have power on a separate sheet and if the
symbols are well defined one can even overlay the power unit with one of
the other units. (Making this solution the most flexible option.)
That ERC does not check for non placed units is a drawback. As others
already noticed most complex parts already suffer from this deficiency.
(I am not prepared to make a hotfix on the symbol side to temporarily
hide that deficiency in a limited subset of symbols.)
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