I need the color coding of each square be different color. All options are acceptable.
There may not be a good way, may have to just manually add a color graphic for each square. That color graphic might not be the size of the square but only cover a portion of the square.
You sure itâs advisable to symbolize a 168 pin BGA chip like it is in the real world vs. creating a multi-part symbol with functional groups as separate units?
I donât think what you want is possible (nor advisable).
KiCAD doesnât know colored areas in symbols/EEschema. Itâs a former black/white world that got spiced up by some more colors for certain elements in your schematic to make creating easier and less failure prone.
Going full Inkscape/Visio wasnât on the planâŚ
Well, then⌠afaik this is where you can set the fill color for the body of all symbols in EEschema. 1 color, all the same, no extras, no rainbow⌠and even when they finish EEschema refurbishment in a year or so I doubt this would be possible.
Take note this is a nightly version 2016-11-19 revision 888c5d2
Correct, images arenât part of a symbol definition, as symbols usually are simplified, functional, descriptive drawings of real devices, sometimes even broken up into several sub symbols.
Why donât you put this image (scaled correctly) behind a see-through symbol if itâs a one-off event?
scaled up (factor 200):
Color values might not all be exact the same as I just scaled the image from above down to single pixels with weighted average function (grey patch left top is a little bit lighter than the one in the top center for example, i.e. RGB values of patch x are not exactly RGB values of patch y, although they look the same).
What I meant, put it into EEschema behind the symbol which has no fill.
You wonât be able to have the image appear/load with the symbol as single unit⌠thus I said â'for a one off eventâ.
The image needs to appear first in the .sch file, then the components.
Hm⌠the symbol you showed that was self made had squares instead of rectangles.
If you then download the image I uploaded up there (either version is fine, you save a lot of file size if you take the very tiny 13x13 pixel version though) and put that behind that symbol with square âpadsâ it should look better.
Anyhow⌠why do you do this?
I understood you have to do it for someone, but donât they know how 99.9% of the people doing professional electronics design create such symbols?