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Re: [PATCH] Hide pin targets when properly connected

 

Hey Chris,

Just wanted to say thanks for all your recent work.

(Years ago, I had a very important PCB where I idiotically forgot to rerun
ERC and there was very hard rework I had to do to get it to work, due to
the missing connection.)

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne
On Jun 4, 2015 5:21 PM, "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Recently a proposal was made on Launchpad for pins to indicate when they
> are connected: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1458083
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me; I recently asked on the list, and on both
> list and Launchpad there is general agreement that the second proposal
> (hide the pin target after the connection is made) was best. Here's a
> patch to do this.
>
> IMO it makes the schematic look a lot cleaner in addition to helping
> make sure the schematic is connected correctly :)
>
> --
> Chris
>
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