Hey there! In recent versions the symbols in the schematic were updated automatically if I modified the symbol in the library. This is not working anymore in v5.99 and I don’t see a button or something like this to do this manually. Any suggestions? Or do I have to replace the symbol in question and enter all parameters anew?
Have you tried “changing” the symbol without actually changing, but giving it the same symbol again?
I haven’t tried, but I expect it to load the same symbol from the library.
This is of course a missing feature, the new schematic system should have update symbol, change symbol etc. like pcbnew has.
Nice, thanks! I will file a feature request on GitHub.
Please do, although I’m not sure if there should be a larger report “make actions for symbols in schematic consistent with actions for footprints in pcb”. Because there should be similar context menu items, buttons in the Properties and similar dialogs: Update, Change, Edit (in place), Edit in library.
(On second thought I’ll do just that.)
See also #4488.
Ok, I added a reference to #4488 in my bug report (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4564)
I added a link to yours as well =)
I do not have V5.99 but use the stable V5.1.6 instead.
The “old” way of changing schematic if some external library changes was very bad because it can break things without user input.
From what I know of KiCad V6 I expect it to work the same way as Pcbnew does now. Pcbnew has copies of all used library symbols in it’s own file, and updates from the library are only done with explicit user input.
Re-loading the Footprints in Pcbnew from the libraries is done with:
Pcbnew / Tools / Update Footprints from Library which opens a dialog which asks what to update:
Does V5.99 have a similar dialog for Schematic symbols?
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