I have no officila info, but I did some research: kicad uses "power-out" and "power-in" as attributes, most cads use only one kind of "Power". This is what brings in that strange beast called "Power-flag" which in fact is only a "power-out" pin because the ERC believes that all power in the universe has to come from somewhere AND from only one place.
IMHO this could be removed from ERC and everything woud get "much more normal". BUT, there is one gotcha: there is a bug in power/grownd connections that do not accept a pin with length more then 0. I did manage do change a few things by changing one thing at a time, which takes an awfull lot of time. Alain oecherexpat escreveu: > I am trying to use the power flag with a different shape. What are the > rule to generate one, I couldn't find anythinf in the docs? > > In saying this: Is it actually possible to use a power flag as a power > signal? I find it quite strange to pre-define power signal names with > the symbols. > > How do you guys draw your power lines. I saw some schematics using no > power symbols at all but only signal names like GND and VCC. > > Cheers, Heiko > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > >
