Hello I have a problem with the connectivity between nets. The issue is as follows. I have this net on the top schematic that should be connected to the U_Connectors sub sheet.
First, I don’t like using slashes in label names. KiCad also uses slashes in “path names” to hierarchical sheets (and labels in such sheets), and I would rather avoid possible problems then having to figure out the details of whether this is actually officially supported. I did have a brief look in the manual, but did not see a list of allowed or of forbidden characters for labels.
For the rest, I think you have stumbled into a bit of a weird bug. At first I was not sure whether your local label was actually connected to the bus, so I created a test project, and then of course did some tests with that. During those tests I found some issues with net highlighting. One thing I found is that removing and putting back the hierarchical sheet label in the sub sheet breaks net highlighting. But it get fixed after exiting the schematic editor and loading it again.
In another test I verified the actual connectivity by putting the footprints on the PCB and updating with [F8], and the actual connectivity is as expected, so only highlighting seems to be affected, but this needs some more testing to be sure. At the moment my concentration is going down, so I’m not continuing this today.
Oh. You are totally Right, the / seems to be the issue. When I tried with the A1 net for instance, Kicad correctly showed the net connections. As a side note, I tried calling the net Z-D5 but it didn’t work Z.D5 and Z|D5 seem to work without issue though.
