Connecting multiple Power Outputs results in the ERC error “Error: Pins of type Power output and Power output are connected”:
I understand why this is happening and it usually makes sense. But I add additional footprints that are not supposed to be placed, in case parts become unavailable at some point in the future.
There are a few other older posts on the forum with the same question and the solution seems to be to copy the symbol to a custom library and edit the pin type to passive. That might solve the issue, but it is quite cumbersome and feels very wrong from a design point of view.
Is there a way to tell KiCAD to allow this? Or to ignore some components?
What I currently do is to ignore the ERC warnings but that seems more like a workaround than a good solution. What’s the recommended way to solve this?
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor
Version: 6.0.6+dfsg-1~bpo11+1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.74.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1n zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, lightdm-xsession, x11
Build Info:
Date: Jul 1 2022 17:47:41
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.74.0
ngspice: 34
Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 with C++ ABI 1014
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON