Have you tried selecting part A, in the lib editor and unticking the common to units option for pins 4 and 11.
That appears to give you power pins on part A, and nothing on parts B=D A quick sctatch circuit with 4 parts gives no DRC errors when used that way. Andy On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:58:23 -0700 Joerg <[email protected]> wrote: > Andy Eskelson wrote: > > I think I see what's happened. > > Pins 11 and 4 have been named as V+ and V- however there are no power > > ports of that name. Either change them to one of the defined names or > > create power type pins of that name. As a test change them to VCC etc and > > see if you get the same effect, if not then that's the problem. > > > > > It happens regardless of what I call them, even if I do not name them at > all. In many analog circuits you cannot directly connect a power port, > you need to provide some chips with their own little RC filters, > regulators and whatnot. On battery-operated circuits they are sometimes > even switched by, for example, a uC plus P-channel FET. > > That's why it is crucial that all A-units remain where they are. The > annotation routine can rename U2A into U5A but it should never rename it > to, for example, U5B. I may be wrong but my impression is that this > distinction (treat A-units differently than all others) is missing in > Kicad. If that's true I would not be able to switch to Kicad. > > -- > Regards, Joerg > > http://www.analogconsultants.com/ > > "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. > Use another domain or send PM. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
