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Fix outdated IC14 reference #384

Closed roscopeco closed 12 months ago

roscopeco commented 12 months ago

Reported in Discord by kittymeow : https://discord.com/channels/698525682199822367/698527817259941970/1172907116365885450

0xTJ commented 12 months ago

One alternative (at least in KiCad 7, I think it was also there in 6) to directly writing IC5 in the text box is writing ${IC5:REFERENCE}. This gets stored as a reference to that particular symbol instance, so if the reference designator gets changed, the text will be updated to match the new name (if you delete that symbol, you end up with ${<something like a UUID>:REFERENCE}. You can get a number of properties of symbols doing this, but I've used the REFERENCE the most in text comments.

roscopeco commented 12 months ago

One alternative (at least in KiCad 7, I think it was also there in 6) to directly writing IC5 in the text box is writing ${IC5:REFERENCE}. This gets stored as a reference to that particular symbol instance, so if the reference designator gets changed, the text will be updated to match the new name (if you delete that symbol, you end up with ${<something like a UUID>:REFERENCE}. You can get a number of properties of symbols doing this, but I've used the REFERENCE the most in text comments.

Good shout @0xTJ , thanks 🙂 ! Done 👍

(Also, I'm in Kicad 6, where confirmed it does work 💯 ).