Hi,
I’m sure this question must have been asked before but I can’t seem to find it.
I’m using KiCAD 4.0.4 on Mac 10.14.6. Sorry I haven’t updated to V5 yet!
I’m fairly experienced with PCB layout from a previous commercial life. I’ve only done about 10 kicad designs though.
For the first time I’m doing a kicad design that’s going off to an SMT line. I’ve finished the design and layout. They’d like fields populated with all the ratings which is understandable.
Presumably the ‘right’ way to do this is to edit the schematic and ECO over the netlist.
Most of my resistors are 1/8W, most of my caps are 50V etc etc - Is there a way to add ratings to several components at once?
I know you can open up the sch in a text editor and edit and I’ve had a root around in there but without any real knowledge of Regular expressions or any such wizardry I’m not sure how to start. Always keen to learn though.
In the below example I’m comparing R118 which I’ve added a rating to in EESch and R114 which I haven’t. Clearly I have to copy the F 4 line from R118 over to fix R114, but need to edit the 4 following numbers, which are presumably positioning co-ordinates, should I choose to turn on the label. Obviously that’s not any more practical that EESchema.
$Comp
L R R118
U 1 1 5D138724
P 4350 5900
F 0 “R118” V 4430 5900 50 0000 C CNN
F 1 “220R” V 4350 5900 50 0000 C CNN
F 2 “Resistors_SMD:R_0805_HandSoldering” V 4280 5900 50 0001 C CNN
F 3 “” H 4350 5900 50 0000 C CNN
F 4 “0.125W” V 4350 5900 60 0001 C CNN “Rating”
1 4350 5900
-1 0 0 1
$EndComp
$Comp
L R R114
U 1 1 5D138725
P 3700 5500
F 0 “R114” V 3780 5500 50 0000 C CNN
F 1 “NF” V 3700 5500 50 0000 C CNN
F 2 “Resistors_SMD:R_0805_HandSoldering” V 3630 5500 50 0001 C CNN
F 3 “” H 3700 5500 50 0000 C CNN
1 3700 5500
-1 0 0 1
$EndComp
TIA for your help,
Rowan
