2009/4/18 Joerg <[email protected]>: > Andy Eskelson wrote: >> Have you tried selecting part A, in the lib editor and unticking the >> common to units option for pins 4 and 11. >> > > Yes, that's AFAIR the only way in Kicad to make parts with supplies that > only show on the A-unit. > > >> 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. >> > > Now place them in a way that U?B is somewhere near the upper left, U?A > somewhere in the middle, U?C below, U?D to the right and then click > "Annotate". That's when the connections break. > > -- > Regards, Joerg > > http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Hi Joerg, Unfortunately this is the current behaviour of Kicad. It is I'm sure a bug, although I've never issued a bug report in the bug tracker http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=762476&group_id=145591&func=browse It might be worth you submitting a bug report to get this behaviour fixed. I think Kicad should respect the unit part of the annotation. It should only annotate the ? section of the reference designator. I found this particularly broke my schematic when I had a two-part switch which had one LED symbol unit and one switch symbol unit. When I annotated for the first time a lot of symbols changed units. For now, it is best to hand annotate multi-unit schematic symbols. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham.
