why?
I have the “?” on all my symbols, they get replaced by 1, 2 ,3 and so on once I annotate them.
Or are I missing something?
Application: KiCad Symbol Editor x64 on x64
Version: 8.0.1-118-g9a728c37df, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.14.2
libcurl/8.5.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: Apr 2 2024 05:22:33
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.7.1
Curl: 8.5.0-DEV
ngspice: 42
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
why?
because it’s stated in the documentation. (section “Schematic Editor | 8.0 | English | Documentation | KiCad”, search for “?”.
I have the “?” on all my symbols, they get replaced by 1, 2 ,3 and so on once I annotate them.
Maybe this functionality is not guaranteed. Or is error prone in the code. Or whatever.
I don’t know the reason behind this requirement, but normally it’s better to follow the official documentation.
At least for newly created symbols you could omit the “?” character.
When making a symbol for the library, only the alphabetic prefix is needed. So leave out the ?
When you place instances on the schematic, they might show a ? indicating that you haven’t annotated them yet.
