Edit the power pins to be "No Draw" (bottom left hand corner of the pin properties box)
You can then connect the power by using the power symbols. If you want to see the pins you can click on show invisible pins Look at how the 7400 is done as an example. Andy On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:47 -0700 Joerg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > This could be a bug but not sure: When placing multi-unit components > such as the LM324 opamp the power pins show up on all units. That is > ugly and doesn't look professional. Of course one can generate a new > component with power only at U?A but not on U?B and so on, using the > "Edit pins part by part" button in the library editor. Then connect > power to that in the schematic (only to U?A). So far so good. Then comes > the problem: > > Click on annotation to assign designators or to clean them up and ... > poof ... Kicad assigns them without regard to where power is connected. > Where U2A was in the schematic there could now be U3C. Suddenly you have > empty power connections and also A-units with their power pins floating > in the air. > > Is this a bug or is there a trick to avoid that? > > -- > Regards, Joerg > > http://www.analogconsultants.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
