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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Just some cents from my side - hopefully not OT:

- Add some draw scaling factor (i.e. 0.1 .. 10) to the schematic pages.

It happens to me regularly that I am drawing on A3 size paper to get more schematic real-estate and then print it to A4.
My tool is missing scaling... and I am not willing to recreate all libraries with a different grid system.


- Add the possiblity to use "brief" pin names additionally to "full" pin names.

Example from https://forum.kicad.info/t/component-occupies-entire-page-newbie/5272:
Brief pin name: "PA15".
On Mouse-Hover it shows the full pin name: "ADC1_EXTI15/ADC2_EXTI15/ADC3_EXTI15/CEC/I2S1_WS/...blahblubb.../PA15"

Regards,

Clemens



On 2017-02-13 11:32, Oliver Walters wrote:
> Here is a good example of where such a feature would be very well received: https://forum.kicad.info/t/component-occupies-entire-page-newbie/5272/22
> 
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I second this suggestion. Numerous people have been proposing this for
>     quite a long time in IRC, it's a popular idea. A large number of parts
>     are configurable, and forcing the pins to be non-configurable makes ERC
>     pretty weak.
> 
>     On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:22:37PM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote:
>     > As far as I am aware, this (
>     > https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg23302.html <https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg23302.html>) is the latest
>     > proposal for the new symbol format.
>     >
>     > Is this the case?
>     >
>     > Reading through this I have an idea that I think will be very useful.
>     >
>     > Currently each PIN can only have one TYPE (INPUT, OUTPUT, OPEN-COLLECTOR,
>     > etc) which means that for parts with multiple alternate-functions on a pin,
>     > ERC is essentially useless if the pin can be used as an INPUT or an OUTPUT
>     > (or something else).
>     >
>     > Further, labelling all the possible alternate functions on a pin means that
>     > either the symbol grows exceedingly wide, or many functions are missed.
>     >
>     > I suggest that the pin type should have facility for alternate functions to
>     > be specified which would solve both of these problems. Once a symbol is
>     > placed in the schematic, any multi-function pins are set to "default"
>     > values (e.g. GPIO for a micro) but the other functions can be selected.
>     >
>     > See proposed "addition" to format here:
>     >
>     > http://i.imgur.com/5m38eTT.png
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Oliver
> 
> 
> 
> 
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