Sideways pin names on vertical schematic-symbol pins
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
When you create a schematic part having some pins which are pointed upward or downward, those pin names are printed at 90-degree angles rather than in the their usual upright orientations. (I am using KiCad 6.0.0-rc1.) See the attached screenshot.
That behavior makes sense, I'm sure, in many use cases. In my particular application, though, I am converting historical schematics into KiCad for public presentation, and trying to reproduce the appearance of the original drawings as closely as is feasible. These historical drawings do not display the pin names sideways as KiCad does, and therefore I would prefer to have the option to display the pin names in an upright orientation.
It would be helpful if the same behavior were available for the pin names as for the reference designators: i.e., if there were an option in the symbol-library editor to define the orientations of the pin names on a pin-by-pin basis. Or, alternatively, if in eeschema itself, it were possible to move and rotate the individual pin names after the component had been placed on the schematic. (Though for my purposes, doing it in the symbol-library editor would be better.)
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
milestone: | none → 6.0.0-rc1 |
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
status: | Expired → Fix Released |
You can place text fields in the symbol editor with horizontal/vertical orientation.