when a pin is defined it can be set to not show. This is done typically with power pins on a chip. What is important is the NAME, VCC, GND and so on.
If you have set eeschema NOT to show hidden pins then obviously it will not, but when you place a power port with the same name, e.g. GND, eeschema will automatically connect this to the hidden pins of the same name. In other words you can draw your circuit without the power lines thus making the circuit less cluttered. If you have the show hidden pins selected, then you have to connect them up manually. In a small project with only one or two IC's it does not make much difference which way you work, but with many components it makes life easier. Andy On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:21:17 -0700 Rob Frohne <[email protected]> wrote: > I figured it out, at least kind of! I clicked the "Show hidden pins" > icon and it prints them or doesn't depending on the button. Now I want > to know why this is the behavior. > > Any insights? > > Thanks, > > Rob > > Rob Frohne wrote: > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I did something and my AGND symbols in eeschema changed. Now AGND is > > printed going vertically. I don't really need it printed twice, as it > > clutters the schematic. I'm not sure how I changed it so it prints like > > this and I'm not sure how to change it back. Can anyone help me? > > > > For a screen shot of what I mean, see a screenshot of the library editor > > showing AGND: > > > > http://people.wallawalla.edu/~Rob.Frohne/agnd.png > > <http://people.wallawalla.edu/%7ERob.Frohne/agnd.png> > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rob > > > > -- > > Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. > > E.F. Cross School of Engineering > > Walla Walla University > > 100 SW 4th Street > > College Place, WA 99324 > > (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne > > <http://people.wallawalla.edu/%7Erob.frohne> > > > > > > -- > Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. > E.F. Cross School of Engineering > Walla Walla University > 100 SW 4th Street > College Place, WA 99324 > (509) 527-2075 > http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
