RE: Using Buses in Circuits with KiCad 7

baldengineer — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:35:58 GMT

Good video. With version 7, busses became a little more usable, in my opinion.

I had NO idea about "unfold bus." I wonder if there is a way to make it more usable though.

FYI, when you need to "repeat last command" for signals going to the right or up, like in your demo, I do a few tricks.

I use the "repeat last command" to generate all of the labels. Of course, this creates them in a vertical column from 1 to n+1. At this point, if you highlight them all, you can use R (rotate) to spin them 90 degrees for your left-to-right labels.

And to reverse the direction from n+1 to 1 vertically, just press Y (flip Y axis) to reverse the selection group

RE: Using Buses in Circuits with KiCad 7

Andrew J — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:59:56 GMT

Great video Shabaz, good tips. I presume the bus has to be continuous, i.e. I couldn't draw a bus around my driver and then a bus elsewhere on the schematic by the LCD - the buses have to be joined?

I'm sure a bus or two would help declutter this: