Symbol color does not match parent for derived symbols

Schematic Library Symbols
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I planned to give resistors a different color depending on size. e.g. 0805 blue, 0402 red
I changed all resistors to have single parent and changed the parent color. Unfortunately the color of the inherited parts is different (darker)

Is this intentional behavior ? If so is there a way to override this ?

2

I think that’s normal, inherited parts have a brown body fill colour which cannot be edited. See for example LM7812_TO220 which is derived from LM7805_TO220.

3

“It’s been a while since we’ve seen output…”

When was the last time you turned it on? :slight_smile:

4

When someone pulled my enable pin :slight_smile:

5

Thanks for your reply. I think you misunderstood my question. I understand I cannot edit the graphics of an inherited symbol. However when I change the color of the graphics of the parent symbol, the color of the inherited symbol does not match the parent (but is does change)

7

Sorry, I’m not seeing the phenomenon you describe, i.e. darker body fill colour in child symbols.

I took an existing symbol and changed the fill colour to light aqua.

Then I derived another symbol from that, and the fill colour was the same. I switched between the parent and child symbols and couldn’t see any difference.

Just to make sure my eyes weren’t deficient, I opened the symbol library in a text editor. The parent symbol had these lines:

                        (rectangle
                                (start -7.62 16.51)
                                (end 7.62 -16.51)
                                (stroke
                                        (width 0)
                                        (type default)
                                )
                                (fill
                                        (type color)
                                        (color 133 255 244 1)
                                )       
                        )

The child symbol had no such lines, nor could the graphics be edited.

So, :person_shrugging:

8

Darker informs you that this graphic is not to be edited.
But it is only in symbols editor. At schematic I didn’t noticed difference between root and derived symbols.

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