What to do as bus-to-bus entry points are gone in 5.99?

[Evan_Shultz]

5.1.x has a ‘bus-to-bus entry point’ tool as shown on page 21 of https://docs.kicad.org/5.1/en/eeschema/eeschema.pdf. It creates an angled, thick, blue ‘wire’, like a bus entry wire that can be used to connect busses together or adds angles in a bus. This tool appears to be removed in 5.99.

When loading and updating a 5.1 design using these elements in 5.99, I see many ERC warnings that I found were resolved when I remove those angled schematic elements and replace them with square corners using the regular ‘add a bus’ tool in 5.99.

I hope I haven’t missed anything with the above assessment. If so, is this expected? Manual work is required to resolve warnings when bus-to-bus entry points are present? And busses must have square corners? I’m OK with all of this, but I couldn’t find any information about it on the forum and on GitLab I only turned up https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6332, so I’m hoping to both share my experience and also record what’s going on with busses in 5.99 (eventually to be version 6). Perhaps somebody in the future can find it and help themself.

[craftyjon]

Please file an issue with a project that has the warnings. We removed bus-bus entries as a concept since they are not really useful as a standalone object, as part of the upgrades to how buses work. But, old designs that used them should still load OK and not have ERC issues.

To create buses with non-square corners, you need to turn off the “restrict buses and wires to H and V only” in the editing options. Using bus-bus entries as angled wires is no longer supported.