Eeschema: non-autoplaced fields feature
Currently, autoplacing fields is the default and affects all shown fields in a symbol.
If a field/property is used as an indicator (+, -, •), it should not be rearranged when a symbol is rotated or mirrored.
Normal text would not be affected, but a user couldn't change/move/hide it in the schematic. So it would be nice to have e.g. a lock attribute for a property, or if their name starts with ki_indicator*, .etc., so that they would be excluded from (but not ignored by) autoplacing.
It could also help to keep the value in the center of European style (international) resistor symbols.
Example symbols: see C (+), L (•), R (+ is invisible but useful for simulations)
KiCad Version
Application: KiCad
Version: (5.99.0-3379-gdb40e0c595), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.73.0
OCE: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.71.0
ngspice: 32
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Edited by Markus Gyger