[kicad-users] Re: eeschema: How to update the DATE field in the title block?
The .sch format is ASCII text with the title block items right up near the top, so it's a quick edit to make if it doesn't update as or when expected. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spi...@... wrote: I've just had my attention drawn to the fact that the date hadn't updated on one of my schematics after I made a few changes to component values. I was thankful find a thread on this subject in the archive. I had already tried (unnecessarily) editing the sheet properties and saving the netlist before searching, but I would never have thought of annotating to update the date. The Help just says The date is automatically updated. I can understand why the date shouldn't just reflect when you last saved the file, but surely it should update after any change. Am I missing something? Regards, Robert. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, calvingrier cgrier@ wrote: --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, johnppeter john_peter@ wrote: I am a new user, and I have begun a simple hierarchical design exercise in eeschema. I notice that when I change the schematic and save the project, the date field in the title block does NOT change, on the primary sheet. A sub-sheet in the design does not show a date, at all. This is peculiar and undesirable. I am using a very recent version of the KiCad software...Oct 27, 2007, I believe. Could anyone tell me how to: 1) get date information into all sheets in a hierarchical design? 2) change date information manually on one page? 3) allow eeschema to automatically update the DATE field of the title block? I know this sounds a little strange, but try annotating, and generating a netlist. Mine seems to update all sheets if I do these steps. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 07:34:00
Re: [kicad-users] Re: eeschema: How to update the DATE field in the title block?
Thanks. I was getting close to resorting to that at one point :). I was just wondering if this is a bug (and a very old one at that), in which case I should log it in the bug tracker, or a feature I don't understand. Looks like it's probably a bug. Regards, Robert. Richard Webb wrote: The .sch format is ASCII text with the title block items right up near the top, so it's a quick edit to make if it doesn't update as or when expected. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spi...@... wrote: I've just had my attention drawn to the fact that the date hadn't updated on one of my schematics after I made a few changes to component values. I was thankful find a thread on this subject in the archive. I had already tried (unnecessarily) editing the sheet properties and saving the netlist before searching, but I would never have thought of annotating to update the date. The Help just says The date is automatically updated. I can understand why the date shouldn't just reflect when you last saved the file, but surely it should update after any change. Am I missing something? Regards, Robert. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, calvingrier cgrier@ wrote: --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, johnppeter john_peter@ wrote: I am a new user, and I have begun a simple hierarchical design exercise in eeschema. I notice that when I change the schematic and save the project, the date field in the title block does NOT change, on the primary sheet. A sub-sheet in the design does not show a date, at all. This is peculiar and undesirable. I am using a very recent version of the KiCad software...Oct 27, 2007, I believe. Could anyone tell me how to: 1) get date information into all sheets in a hierarchical design? 2) change date information manually on one page? 3) allow eeschema to automatically update the DATE field of the title block? I know this sounds a little strange, but try annotating, and generating a netlist. Mine seems to update all sheets if I do these steps. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 07:34:00 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2697 - Release Date: 02/19/10 07:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2697 - Release Date: 02/19/10 07:34:00
[kicad-users] Re: eeschema: How to update the DATE field in the title block?
I suspect that it's not a bug as such but that Kicad's understanding of when to update the date isn't what you are expecting it to be. Or me, for that matter... Regardless, what I do to supplement the date (which is probably intended to be date of this project and not date of this rev) is to include a revision control system (RCS) identifier in one of the comment lines. That way, the $Id$ field is both automatically updated and shows up in the title block. The pure ASCII file format that Kicad uses throughout is a big plus for me, since it does let me use standard versioning software and I can, if necessary, go back to retrieve an earlier rev. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spi...@... wrote: Thanks. I was getting close to resorting to that at one point :). I was just wondering if this is a bug (and a very old one at that), in which case I should log it in the bug tracker, or a feature I don't understand. Looks like it's probably a bug. Regards, Robert. Richard Webb wrote: The .sch format is ASCII text with the title block items right up near the top, so it's a quick edit to make if it doesn't update as or when expected. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spider@ wrote: I've just had my attention drawn to the fact that the date hadn't updated on one of my schematics after I made a few changes to component values. I was thankful find a thread on this subject in the archive. I had already tried (unnecessarily) editing the sheet properties and saving the netlist before searching, but I would never have thought of annotating to update the date. The Help just says The date is automatically updated. I can understand why the date shouldn't just reflect when you last saved the file, but surely it should update after any change. Am I missing something? Regards, Robert.
Re: [kicad-users] Re: eeschema: How to update the DATE field in the title block?
I do this plus have a little script to strip the date before subversioning. It bothers me to check a schematic into svn, and the only thing that's changed on most pages is the date... On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Richard Webb ax...@yahoo.com wrote: I suspect that it's not a bug as such but that Kicad's understanding of when to update the date isn't what you are expecting it to be. Or me, for that matter... Regardless, what I do to supplement the date (which is probably intended to be date of this project and not date of this rev) is to include a revision control system (RCS) identifier in one of the comment lines. That way, the $Id$ field is both automatically updated and shows up in the title block. The pure ASCII file format that Kicad uses throughout is a big plus for me, since it does let me use standard versioning software and I can, if necessary, go back to retrieve an earlier rev. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com kicad-users%40yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spi...@... wrote: Thanks. I was getting close to resorting to that at one point :). I was just wondering if this is a bug (and a very old one at that), in which case I should log it in the bug tracker, or a feature I don't understand. Looks like it's probably a bug. Regards, Robert. Richard Webb wrote: The .sch format is ASCII text with the title block items right up near the top, so it's a quick edit to make if it doesn't update as or when expected. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com kicad-users%40yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spider@ wrote: I've just had my attention drawn to the fact that the date hadn't updated on one of my schematics after I made a few changes to component values. I was thankful find a thread on this subject in the archive. I had already tried (unnecessarily) editing the sheet properties and saving the netlist before searching, but I would never have thought of annotating to update the date. The Help just says The date is automatically updated. I can understand why the date shouldn't just reflect when you last saved the file, but surely it should update after any change. Am I missing something? Regards, Robert.
[kicad-users] Re: eeschema: How to update the DATE field in the title block?
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, calvingrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, johnppeter john_peter@ wrote: I am a new user, and I have begun a simple hierarchical design exercise in eeschema. I notice that when I change the schematic and save the project, the date field in the title block does NOT change, on the primary sheet. A sub-sheet in the design does not show a date, at all. This is peculiar and undesirable. I am using a very recent version of the KiCad software...Oct 27, 2007, I believe. Could anyone tell me how to: 1) get date information into all sheets in a hierarchical design? 2) change date information manually on one page? 3) allow eeschema to automatically update the DATE field of the title block? I know this sounds a little strange, but try annotating, and generating a netlist. Mine seems to update all sheets if I do these steps. Right on, Calvin. Interestingly, in the hierarchical experimental project I created, I have been spending the morning working on one of the sub-sub-sheets. I had annotated many times, and as soon as I read your posting, I looked at my title block and observed that the date had been updated according to your prediction. With the project closed, I then opened the top sheet. None of the parents to that sub-sub sheet had experienced updating of the title block date. So I annotated again, with hierarchical mode specified, and all pages updated. Thank you for your keen advice.
