Editing a footrpint from the current board
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If you attempt to edit a footprint from the current board (Ctrl-E), the footprint is opened with all the editing that has been done at the board level (i.e. position, appearance and text of reference and value fields). This reduces functionality of the shortcut. If you attempt to save such footprint into a library, all the data fields will be save with that editing. For example, if your components reference was U5 it is going to get saved as U5 in the library, instead of REF** One can say that you are just editing the specific footprint of the current board and not the footprint from the library. I don't see a lot of utility to such approach.
There might be some isolated cases when this can come handy, but as a rule I would rather drive the layout based on the library footprints and have a shortcut when I can rapidly access a footprint from a design and open it from the library without trying to find which library it belongs to and then go find the library and then try to find it in the library. It would be even better if the library that the footprint belongs to was already selected when I open it with a CTRL-E shortcut, so all I would have to do after editing a footprint would be hit "Save to the library" and then update the footprint at the board level.
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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