Symbol preview in Cvpcb

[Martin]

Hello,

in Cvpcb it is possible to show a preview of the footprint, but it would be also nice if there is a possibility to show the symbol. So you can check if the parts fit together (for example: Diode symbol pins: 1,2 and in the footprint it is A,K. It takes some time to find the problem why the footprint has no connection to it.)

Best regards,

Martin

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

There already is a viewer, you just have to open it by clicking on the
toolbar button that looks like a footprint with a magnifying glass. The
viewer is in a separate window which displays the footprint any time you
click on an entry in the footprint pane. If you are asking for a
separate pain in the view, then that is a different issue.

On 11/22/2017 01:25 PM, Martin wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Hello,
>
> in Cvpcb it is possible to show a preview of the footprint, but it would
> be also nice if there is a possibility to show the symbol. So you can
> check if the parts fit together (for example: Diode symbol pins: 1,2 and
> in the footprint it is A,K. It takes some time to find the problem why
> the footprint has no connection to it.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> ** Affects: kicad
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

[Martin (martin-marmsoler)]

I mean additional to the footprint viewer a symbol viewer to compare the pin asignement.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I read this wrong. There is no symbol viewer. I'm sure we could add
one if someone finds the time to implement it.

On 11/22/2017 4:23 PM, Martin wrote:
> I mean additional to the footprint viewer a symbol viewer to compare the
> pin asignement.
>

[Martin (martin-marmsoler)]

Thank you for your great work!

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

Thanks.
Remember there is a cross-probing between Cvpcb and Eeschema: when you click on a component, the Eeschema cursor is put on this component in schematic.
Although it is not exactly what you want, it helps.

Remember also showing a symbol is not so easy when this symbol has multi units.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2084