Hey everybody,
I just switched from Eagle to KiCad and so far I’m quite satisfied. Just now I realizied that I have to manually name every single resistor and capacitor that I place in the schematic. I can barely beliefe that this is the only way to go. It’s far to time conuming and error-prone. Am I wrong? Is there any KiCad Extention which tries to fight the problem? Does the native, stable version has a Feature that I could use?
Thank you for taking the time!
Regards,
Lenni
This has been built in to KiCAD since before I started using it (7+ years ago). Take a look at the toolbar there’s a symbol that looks like an OpAmp with U?A that says “Annotate schematic components” or look in the “Tools” menu for Annotate Schematic. That will assign numbers to all the parts, or just the ones added since last time you ran it depending on the options you select in the dialogue.
There we go! And I was allready wondering about it 
Obviously the problem was using the keyboard again… Thanks a lot Nathan!