Allow annotations without a number
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Another features which I have found missing are related to annotation in eeschema.
I suggest to:
1) Add options to annotate components in a selection (eg. a rectangular block), including in a reverse direction of current possibilities (sort by x or by y, which results in increase of designator always downwards or rightwards), and likewise, to clear annotation in a selection.
Recently I had a few schematics where there was a significant number (180 or 224) of the same components which for practical reasons should have had consecutive numbers 1-MAX, ordered in a few rows, in alternating order (to resemble the layout on the PCB). The current workaround was:
- place only those components in a grid layout,
- annotate them,
- Y-mirror every second row,
- add the remaining components,
- never ever clear annotation anymore.
This resulted in:
- having to repeat the whole operation when I decided to add more capacitors,
- gaps in designators (eg. C250, C251, C254, C255, ...), because having to annotate "manually" of course I have overlooked some, this is not critical, but makes maintaining a BOM more problematic.
The option as suggested would make things much easier and better.
2) Allow to use designators without a number.
It is a good practice to mark eg. connectors in a human readable form, like: VIN, VOUT, VBAT...
It is possible, but KiCAD forces an additional number: VIN1, VOUT1, VBAT1...
It's not critical, but the version without the number is just nicer.
If possible, the strings without a number (like "VIN"), and perhaps without any letter ("123") as well, could be fixed and just a possible duplicate could be reported.
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | removed: annotation designator |
summary: |
- suggestions to improve eeschema in terms of annotation + Allow annotations without a number |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Using designators 'without any letter ("123")' - I'm for it.