I’m trying to create a new library symbol while doing my first KiCAD design. I can right click, select grid, and pick a grid size (I’m choosing 100). The new grid size constrains cursor placement to the desired grid.
Now when I try to place a pin, the effective grid size reverts to 50 despite showing 100 checked in the context dialog. Is this intentional? Is there a different grid setting to pick for pins somewhere else? I’m trying to place pins 200 units apart.
Thanks!
I will not help a lot.
Only, when I add some graphic lines to my symbols I use grid 10.
I figured it out. Under Preferences → Symbol Editor → Grids → Grid Overrides, there’s a checkbox for “connected items” which appears to include pins.
If I uncheck that, grids behave as I expect. I want to widely space pins so that there is some room for net labels, passives, etc. between them.
It strongly depends (if this checkbox is or not) on KiCad version and you didn’t said what version are you using. Just yesterday we were discussing with someone using KiCad V6.
Working with grid 50 don’t block positioning pins with bigger distance. I typically place one 8 bit port pins with 100 distance between them and left 150 to first pin of next port.
I strongly suggest you read the KLC:
For pins, go to section S4.2
In summary, the active pin ends (the ones you connect to in the schematic) should be on a 0.1" (100 mil) grid. The symbol graphic itself can be anything.
Luckily 200 is a multiple of 100, and I’m working wholly outside of the community library anyway. Thanks, all, this is solved.
