Hi swarm intelligence,
I got assigned the glorious task of fixing very old eagle projects in my company and converting them to KiCad.
Now I found a particularly stubborn one.
It uses (custom?) capacitor symbols that refuse to connect.
I moved everything to grid and still I can’t connect tracks to the pins. No matter whether I start from the symbol or elsewhere.
Anyone who already had/solved this problem?
Sorry if this is a duplicate but I didn’t find anything similar in a quick tag search.
Did you edit the symbol and make sure its aligned to the same grid spacing ? if the Symbol is aligned to the grid in the Schematic editor at its origin and the pins are off grid you will struggle, I suspect you need to fix the symbol first.
Yeah that’s probably the only way besides replacing all the caps with default footprints for caps.
I just hoped there would be an option to “not snap to grid” or whatever.
Should be a fairly quick fix . . . you only need to do one of each type of symbol, then “update from library” for the other instances.
You can zoom out, select the whole schematic, then do a right click and select: Align Elements to Grid from the context menu.
There is a small chance this creates a faulty schematic, as KiCad creates the netlist from grid coordinates. But those will be caught when the schematic is synchronized with the PCB and DRC is run. If you are aware of this, it’s easy to fix, but it is a bit of a stinker if you’re not aware of this.
And for the rest, if those the capacitors from that old eagle project do not work with KiCad’s grid, then I suggest to replace them with KiCad’s default capacitors. This is fairly quick to do in bulk with: Schematic Editor / Tools / Edit Symbol Library Links. But as the location of the ins will vary a bit, you have to fix that manually for each capacitor. A bit of work, but not really a big deal.