Hi all, I’ve been doing PCB design for a couple of years now, but I’m still a bit new to KiCad.
I’m designing a mezzanine board that connects to an evaluation board I have. It uses a 400-pin FMC connector. I already have the symbol and footprint for the connector, and I have the pinout from the datasheet that I want to match on my board. Is there a simple way to assign the nets to all the pins?
It seems a bit tedious and prone to mistakes to manually place the wires and labels for each net in the schematic. Is there a way to do this programmatically, or even in a table like the symbol fields? Having a csv or text file with the pins and their assigned nets that I could import and apply to the schematic would be ideal. I was looking into using the python api, but I haven’t found much about using python to edit schematics. I don’t need to design the full schematic like this, I’d just like to do the pin assignments.
This seems like a common enough problem, especially with more complex components, that I’m wondering if there’s a simple solution already in KiCad that I’ve just missed. Thanks for the help!