Symbols with Value != Symbol Name in V6.0?

[albin]

BTW, I was involved in pretty much the same discussion almost a year ago. Could be some valuable information in that thread.

Library Symbols Browser : "Symbol Name" vs "Value"

Hi, I’m building a private lib (as a test). In some cases, I want the name displayed in the library explorer (left column) to be different of the “Value” field. I can’t do it, as it seems that the 3 displays are linked. The field “Symbol Name” is clearly an alias for the field “Value”(not present in the *.kicad_sym filed). [image] I’d like to decouple the displayed text (left column) from the “Value” field. The subject is not the library format (it is very flexible), but the current incar…