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June 8, 2020, 1:22am
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Units per package depends on how you want to break up the package in your schematic. Do you really want ONE big connector or does it make sense to break it up into different units for different parts of your schematic for legibility purposes?
Start here:
Disclaimer: Screenshots taken in a nightly from after the 5.0.x releases. The current nightlies are expected to become 5.1.
Some features shown here are missing in the current stable 5.0.x. Some dialogs look different in 5.0.x.
KiCad version 4 had a very different symbol editor meaning this tutorial is not really suitable to teach symbol creation in KiCad version 4
Quick start tutorial for the symbol library editor.
Official documentation for the symbol editor
Other FAQ articles worth read…
Not sure if this is covered in the tutorial:
What are electrical types used for?
The electrical type is used by the electrical rule check (ERC) to determine if you made an obvious mistake. ERC is really quite limited. All it does is read all electrical types of pins connected to a particular net and check their combination against the error matrix.
Example: By default connecting two output pins together will result in an error. (Makes sense as one output can be high and one can be low resulting in a short circuit between the positive supp…
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