[kicad-users] pin position occupied - false positives ?

2009-05-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
When working with a component that contains multiple independent units, KiCad warns about pin locations being occupied even if the conflicting pin is in a different unit. This may to be unnecessary. I've attached a patch that suppresses the warning if the pins are in different units. - Werner

Re: [kicad-users] pin position occupied - false positives ?

2009-05-20 Thread jean-pierre charras - INPG
Werner Almesberger a écrit : When working with a component that contains multiple independent units, KiCad warns about pin locations being occupied even if the conflicting pin is in a different unit. This may to be unnecessary. I've attached a patch that suppresses the warning if the pins

[kicad-users] Re: Changing size of a part in library changes the part in all my schemas!

2009-05-20 Thread yeshe66
Well... here is the sourcecode (java) and the runnable .jar file I hope it is possible to understand. Download: http://web.comhem.se/avr/arkiv/place.jar http://web.comhem.se/avr/arkiv/Main.txt (change extention : Main.txt should be Main.java but that was not accepted by my server) Perhaps

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Changing size of a part in library changes the part in all my schemas!

2009-05-20 Thread Andy Eskelson
There is a auto position system built into kicad which may be of some help. This does NOT place the components aas per eeschma, but it does spread them out which makes for easy selection. In PCBnew, you must create a board outline first. When the netlist is read in, the modules will be placed on

Re: [kicad-users] Why this bus doesn't work?

2009-05-20 Thread Jaime Silva
But I checked the video demo and it works there! I loaded it, ran the ERC and everything is fine. So I guess I must be doing something wrong or there is a secret trick not explained in the manual. From: Pedro Martin pki...@yahoo.es To:

Re: [kicad-users] Why this bus doesn't work?

2009-05-20 Thread Jaime Silva
In conclusion: The label must be placed over an horizontal line. I tried to rotate the label and place it over a vertical line and it didn't worked either. Thanks a lot Pedro. From: Pedro Martin pki...@yahoo.es To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [kicad-users] Changing size of a part in library changes the part in all my schemas!

2009-05-20 Thread Pedro Martin
Hi, All you have to do is rename R and C. In the libraries you have charge in the project, there are 2 compnents called R and 2 components called C. Your projects will charge the first R and C components found in your libraries. I think you do not want 2 different components with the same name.