AHA! Now I see, VCC and GND needs a Power Flag. That got rid of my DRC Errors.
Just to be sure. So GND and PWR nets are auto generated? Say I have a battery symbol on one side of schematic and need to place a GND symbol on the other, Kicad will auto assign to the GND net? On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 20:23 +0000, Andy Eskelson wrote: > > Yes invisible pins are auto connected. > > The Power pin not driven catches most new users out. > > All that is happening is that DRC is checking that there is a source > of > power for a pin identified as power in. This can come in two ways, > either a device that has a power out pin defined, such as a regulator, > or > in cases where there is no such device i.e. the power comes in from > off-board, all you have to do is add a power flag symbol to the net. > This > tells DRC that you are providing power and that will sort things out. > The > only oddity is that GND is also considered a power in, so that needs > to > have a power flag on it somewhere as well. > > Have a read of the help document, there is a lot of useful tips in > there. > > Andy > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:52:56 -0700 > rocko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Huh? Not sure I understand your notes. > > The net is auto generated? Then why am I getting the ERC error on my > VCC > > and GND symbols, "Power pin is not driven in" > > > > The invisible PWR pins on IC's are auto connected, really? if thats > the > > case then that's pretty cool. > > > > > > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 14:30 -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > > > > > > I made a few notes on this a while back - if any of this has > changed > > > please let me know. > > > > > > http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Eeschema#Notes_2 > > > > > > I remember weirdness of how this works - > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > Karl Schmidt EMail [email protected] > > > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > > > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > > > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > > > > > When angry count four; when very angry, swear. --Mark Twain > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
