Should USB port GND be renamed to USBGND?
Created by: danheidel
I'm running into an issue where the GND pin on the USB C Receptacle USB 2.0 and the USB C Receptacle (There may be other parts with this issue, I haven't done a thorough check) in the Connector library overrides the net label and forces any attached net to be named GND. This causes issues when trying to add a ferrite bead in series with the ground pin.
I have a more detailed writeup with screencaps here: https://www.reddit.com/r/KiCad/comments/9td841/having_an_issue_with_net_names_a_usb_port_pin/
I seem to have ruled out the part in general, the ferrite bead and the GND pin being a stacked power port as the causes. I looked through the details of the individual power pins (A1, A12 B1, B12) making up that GND pin but didn't see anything that would make it behave differently than the expected behavior.