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hi,

I just starting using kicad about a week ago. a few questions:

1. in eeschema lib editor, is it possible to make some letters of a
pin name overlined (active low) and some not? for example
microcontroller pins that have multiple uses.

2. pcbnew: I am a bit confused about the gerber/nc drill outputs. I
noticed that if the pcb design is on the page shown in the lower right
hand quadrant of pcbnew then the gerber files will have negative y
values. also the nc drill file seems to be mirrored around the x
axis, y values have to be multiplied by negative 1 to line up with the
gerber outputs when viewing the gerber files from a normal gerber
viewer (gc-prevue or viewmate). Maybe I am doing something wrong but
I could not get pcbnew to output files that will be acceptable for the
CNC mill machine I use, or PCB manufacturer I'm using. I wrote a
small program that processes the files and negates nc drill y-values
and adds an offset to both gerber and nc-drill but I'm thinking I
shoudln't have to do this. either I'm doing something wrong or
something is wrong.

any ideas?

-ryan

Hi Ryan:

I just starting using kicad about a week ago. a few questions:

1. in eeschema lib editor, is it possible to make some letters of a
pin name overlined (active low) and some not? for example
microcontroller pins that have multiple uses.

Yes, just make ~ the very first character of the name.

And RTFM :-)

Regards,

Pedro.

Yes, Pedro I know how to make ALL letters of a pin name overlined but
I only want SOME letters of the pin name overlined. like if i made a
name: ~MCLR/VPP <- how would i get MCLR to be overlined but not VPP.
I can deal with not being able to do it but I just like to stay
consistent with the data sheets.

--- In kicad-users@..., Pedro Martín del Valle
<pmartin@p...> wrote:

Yes, just make ~ the very first character of the name.

And RTFM :-)

Regards,

Pedro.