Hierarchical labels

[paulvdh]

A few years ago I experimented a bit with bus renaming, and made an example project for this. You may find it useful (figure out how and why it works, run DRC, etc). I posted the example in the thread below:

Where is the documentation for how to define a bus in 6.x?

I’ve been playing a bit more with these buses. If you have a bus with named members, then you can right click on the bus, and choose “Unfold from Bus” and select a name from the list, and I think this is new in KiCad V6. [image] I’ve also added some aliases to my example, and grouped them under the name “BBUUSS”. And these aliases can be used as a separate bus, or as a part in a group bus. Note the: Music.Gretl name. The example is just two instances of a hierarchical sheet, connected on th…