Breaking out connector pins on symbols

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I’m new to Kicad but am starting to pick it up and have my first schematic nearly done.

I am looking at the connector symbol library and all of the symbols that I see have all the pins on the symbol. I need a connector symbol where I can place the pins individually wherever I want on my schematic. I have built a 15 pin edge connector module and now need to create a symbol for it. My design is for the 500 series chassis used in audio products where my board will plug into a 15 pin Edac.

Thanks,

Derek

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How about using labels?

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There is one option in KiCAD that would allow you what you want to do, but it’s not advised - multi unit symbols.
You could have a maximum of 26 units (pins) only.

But to avoid future pain, stick with the advice above by @madworm and @Andy_P and do it the KiCAD-way

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Thanks so much for the replies. I’ll try out these suggestions