I am not sure, but IIRC you can connect them with a junction... BUT... I have a rule: allways have at least a small piece of wire straight from the component and before any conection at all. This rule is old, prior to Kicad I used it in Orcad too. It did save me from many errors allong the way :)
Alain Em 27-04-2010 05:29, ymasquel escreveu: > 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 >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > > >
