Transistorgrab

Some people draw their schematic symbols strait according to the pin arrangement of the component.
For explanation they say this prevents confusion during layout when signals are on a different location then in the schematic.
But the schematic is the “Source code” for the layout design. It needs to be drawn in a way to be read fast and unambiguously to enable that mistakes in connections can be spotted easily. For this it helps to prevent wire crossings where ever possible.
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Since some years ago I use the KiCad EDA suite. (And I also collaborated on the translation of the KiCad documentation.)

I’m a electronics engineer and hardware developer in a big company where I do embedded designs in high voltage environments.

KiCad makes a lot of things right but there are some things that annoy me. One is the “one net multiple names” “feature” which is made worse by an even more annoying “feature”: hidden pins.

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