Hi John, For your last subject, there is no auto-connect between pins of symbols (power symbols like others). The only connection is made by wires or named nets/busses.
Yves. --- In [email protected], NeonJohn <j...@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. I finally punted and ran the annotation with the > "reannotate everything". That got the ERC working. Now I'm chasing > phantom errors. In most cases, deleting the trace or more often, the > ground symbol and re-placing it will make the error go away. I've > learned that if I drop a ground symbol right on the pin of a component > with no connecting wire, it'll get flagged as a non-connect. Real PITA. > I have a LOT of those to fix. > > John > > > Stephen Eaton wrote: > > G'day John, > > > > > > > > I myself am fairly new to kicad as well, but have just finished a project as > > a means to better learn kicad. > > > > > > > > With my experiences I found that ERC won't fully run until it sees all > > components are annotated. > > > > > > > > Have you run the annotation tool to see if it picks up the unannoted > > component? > > > > > > > > Stephen... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of NeonJohn > > Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:02 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [kicad-users] Schematic ERC > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm using the latest official release under Ubuntu (Build: (20100406 > > SVN-R2509)-final) After abandoning KiCAD a couple of releases ago as > > not ready for prime time, I'm back to try again. I've entered a fairly > > complex design involving an FPGA, a processor and some analog stuff. > > Being fairly new to this and considering the complexity, I can't believe > > that I made no mistakes. that's what the ERC checker is saying. When I > > bring it up and click "Test ERC", I get the following message: > > > > item not annotated: 0.1uF? > > Annotation required! > > > > But nothing in the marker window. I've checked every single bypass > > capacitor both manually and by searching for the value. They're all > > annotated. > > > > So. Is ERC broken in this release or was I really that good? :-) And > > what's with the annotation message? > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > -- > John DeArmond > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net > PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 >
