Simple tool for easy edit of Bus Aliases across hierarchical sheets.
It is easy, because of:
- edit bus member names within a text-box (text-editor-like)
- assign/remove Bus Aliases to/from sheet by tick/untick a checkbox
It prevents you from ERC-error:
[bus_definition_conflict]: Bus alias NAME has conflicting definitions on file1.kicad_sch and file2.kicad_sch
because of keeping the same bus members in alphabetical order for all assigned files.
Tested with:
- install python3
- install kiutils
pip3 install kiutils
Copy KiCadEditBusAliases.py to a directory, your PATH-variable points to.
- Close and !backup! your KiCad project.
- Pass root schematic file of your KiCad project as a parameter for the script.
KiCadEditBusAliases.py <eeschema_file_name.kicad_sch> - Do the changes you want (see pictures below). Don't forget to assign each and every Bus Alias to at least one file. Otherwise it will not be saved.
- Press "save and exit" to make changes permanent to *.kicad_sch files.
- Open your KiCad project and continue editing using eeschema.
Main window
Window to edit members of a Bus Alias
Insert a new Bus Alias