If you have multiple instances of a component with several sections on a sheet how do you control how the sections are packaged during annotation
e.g. lets say I have 2 dual op-amps on a sheet each drawn as 3 sections, 2 amps + power, I want to specifiy which sections are grouped together in a package when I run annotaion.
As far as I can see you can place each section so that the sort order takes care of it but that is often not convenient, or you must hand edit the annotation
Is there a way I am missing? In another tools you can use an attribute to group sections and it will throw an error sections are not uniquely grouped or sections are missing
KiCad has several settings in the annotation dialog, and you can also do a geograpical re-annotate in the PCB and push that back to the schematic, but that is not really your question.
I interpret this:
as gate swapping. You want to swap the opamp (as schematic symbol) to another footprint of the same kind. I think this is not supported at all, but I never tried to do this myself and am not entirely certain.
What you can do is just hover over the schematic symbol, press m to move it (without dragging wires) and then just move the schematic symbols to the locations you want them.
I don’t care about numbering until I have full schematic ready. Then I distribute its parts out of sheet just to get the numbering order I want. After annotate I get them back at their places.
The OP can either swap the units on the schematic or edit the symbol parts. ie change Unit and Pin numbers.
Moving Units is easier.
My method is to just place any unit anywhere on the schematic, then when the footprints are placed on the PCB i can get an idea of which units should be placed where for convenient track placement. Then it is back to the schematic to move the symbols around and re-annotation.
Pretty much as I thought, some variation of run annotation and then swap/move units around to get the desired unit section packaging, works but strikes me as rather inelegant