Would it be possible to annotate symbols by hovering over them? And also increment pin numers etc when making / editing symbols or footprints.
I didn’t see such a feature in Altium and now I don’t see anything similar in KiCad. To me that would be very handy and welcome.
that alreay works in KiCad. Alt+Shift and scrollwheel
I am in V8.
In footprint editor context menu - Renumber Pads.
You set first number, and step then click at first pad and move cursor through all pads - done.
Isn’t that just meant to increase the number per item? Also, that doesn’t seem to work on a Mac? I tried several combinations without luck.
I made a small animation of what I mean:
Your animation shows something like KiCad’s Renumber Pads feature that Piotr mentioned. Currently this only works in the footprint editor for pads. It would be a reasonable feature request to add it to the symbol editor to work on pins, too.
And not only to the symbol editor but also to annotate symbols in the schematic or layout.
An option to number/annotate items sequentially according to the order in which they touch the selection box. Optionally support a single-click workflow (hover over or one click per item) for manual sequencing.
I prefer consistent workflows for similar tasks across the entire application.
In KiCad you generally do not change pin or pad numbers outside of the library editors.
KiCad also uses the term “annotate” to refer to setting the reference designators of components, not for changing pin/pad numbers.
That’s exactly what I meant, use annotate to create incremental references at schematic level by hovering over symbols. Just in the same fashion as one would hover over pins to increment pin numbers at the symbol or footprint editor.
