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[André S. <list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03.03.2016 17:10, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Is this only a concern for you for the libs themselves, or when you
> actually place them on the schematic? There has recently been added
> that autoplace fields in eeschema which wouldl usually place the
> fields intelligently.
Thanks for the feedback.
I could not find this function in KiCad 4.0.2-4.
But I was under the impression that the field is fixed in the symbol, 
which it is not.
So it is only a minor annoyance to put the fields in the desired 
position when placing the component in the schematic.

  André
> 2016-03-03 16:54 GMT+01:00 André S. <list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello Wayne,
> >
> > thanks for the clarification and the hope that it will be fixed eventually.
> > :)
> >
> >    André
> >
> >
> > On 03.03.2016 15:45, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > > This is a known issue.  It cannot be fixed until the new schematic and
> > > component library file formats are implement.  The current component
> > > library file format has no way of supporting this.  The goal is to get
> > > the new file formats implemented during the current development cycle.
> > > Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.
> > >
> > > On 3/3/2016 9:12 AM, André S. wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > today I started to create a symbol for a microcontroller.
> > > > Since there are so many pins I decided to split the device to 3 gates:
> > > > One for general GPIO, one for Analog Inputs, one for supply and clock
> > > > and jtag etc.
> > > >
> > > > This results in different sized symbols for each gate.
> > > > Currently there seems to be no option to place the Reference and Value
> > > > fields at different locations for each gate.
> > > > So when I place the fields on the correct location for one symbol this
> > > > results in either the fields being right accross the other symbol or too
> > > > far off the symbol and therefore clashing with other symbols in the
> > > > schematic.
> > > >
> > > > There's even an old bug report for it:
> > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1334502
> > > >
> > > > Are there any plans to make it possible to place the fields
> > > > independently for each gate?
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > >     André
> > > >
> > > >
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