Wishlist: pcbnew flag for "footprint has no symbol on purpose" (Prevents deletion on pcb from schematic update)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
Right now KiCad has no way to know if a footprint on a pcb has been added for good reason without a symbol connected or if the symbol has been deleted. For this reason all such footprints are deleted when the "delete extra footprints" flag is enabled.
A good example for footprints that typically do not have a symbol are footprints for graphical symbols (a company logo, the made with kicad logo, warning ESD sensitive, QR codes, ...)
Right now the only option is to lock such a footpirnt. This is both inconvenient and unintuitive.
My suggestion therefore would be a flag that only ensures the Delete extra footprints flag does not delete that footprint. Possibly this flag could be set if a footprint is manually added to the PCB (or a popup could come up asking if they want to protect it. That popup would however benefit from a "do not ask again" flag)
summary: |
- wish: pcbnew flag for "component has no symbol on purpose" + Wishlist: pcbnew flag for "footprint has no symbol on purpose" (Prevents + deletion on pcb from schematic update) |
tags: | added: pcbnew |
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
status: | Expired → Fix Released |
This could be part of https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/kicad/ +bug/1745627