Bernd, you may have seen the pin definitions in the eeschma help document it's quite extensive.
Most of them are fairly obvious, and you choose from them as needed. It is the pin assignments that DRC uses to The danger of using undefined and so on is that drc will then not work very well if at all. However for things like connectors, then passive is a reasonable choice. The ratsnest of the wires, that's another matter You can of course limit what you see with the show general and module ratsnest options, but the main problem is that Kicad will not know which pin the main board trace will connect to until you actually connect it. Hence ypou see the ratsnet. A small case of chicken and egg I'm afraid. As for the sheet name, well the docs do refer to this function, noted as not implemented, but the docs are for a rather older version, so it looks as if this idea has been thought of, but as far as I can see nothing has been done with it. Andy On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:07:20 +0200 "Bernd Wiebus" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Andy. > > > Don't specify the connector as signal and ground. In some cases that can > > cause a few problems. GND is considered a power line for example. > > Yes. Call it "Side" Contact or "Frame" or something. > > > Give your schematic part pin numbers, just 2 of them. > > Use the same pin numbers for your footprint module. > > For the 4 ground connections, give that all the same number. > > > > Note that this is the method used in the 2009 version, things might have > > changed if you are using the later 2010 version of Kicad. (that did not > > work on my SUSE system, hence i still use 2009) > > > > So far i can see, this is the same in the Version from 06th. April 2010. > I use it with Debian "Lenny". > > But for me, the meanings of the Pin-proppertys are allways a little bit > confusing. Different sorts of inputs and outputs and so on. > I am only shure with "not used" :-) > > Once i read a good text about this, but i wasnt able to find it again. :-( > > The next point is: when i create a footprint with more than one pad belonging > to the same potential, and i give them all the same number, they appear in > the board with airwires for connecting between them. > If i make copper connections between them at the footprints, then i will see > this airwires in the board again, and they will only disappear, if i connect > them again at the board. > > Is there a way to switch off this already connected airwires? This would > cause a way to create Modules of a bunch of parts. So you could reuse them on > different boards. Of Course, there would be a minor problem with the > annotation..... > In a schematic, this works, when i use prefabrikated schematics as > hierarschical sheets. > > Again, there it would be nice to give all devices at a hierachical sheet > a certain prefix or suffix to the annotation number. No, i do NOT mean the > reference. I mean something like :"R12-VReg-IV" which would mean Resistor > number 12 at the hierarschical sheet VoltReg-IV. > > with best regards: Bernd wiebus alias dl1eic > > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
