Closed roscopeco closed 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 ${<something like a UUID>:REFERENCE}
. You can get a number of properties of symbols doing this, but I've used the REFERENCE
the most in text comments.
One alternative (at least in KiCad 7, I think it was also there in 6) to directly writing
IC5
in the text box is writing${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 theREFERENCE
the most in text comments.
Good shout @0xTJ , thanks 🙂 ! Done 👍
(Also, I'm in Kicad 6, where confirmed it does work 💯 ).
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