Plugging/Keying a Pin/Way on a Connector

[tobiasfalk]

One thing that is commonly done with Connectors is to plug some Pins/Ways, this is done to key on connector and prevent it from being plugged in/connected to somewhere it should not.
Here are some Ideas how it could be represented:

The following was added in the row of a pin/way

1. <td>P</td> a very simple way, could be confused very easily
2. <td><B>P</B></td> practically the same as 1. but bold and still has the same problem
3. <td BGCOLOR="#000000"></td> very nice to see and understand that this means that this Pin/Way is plugged
5. <td BGCOLOR="#000000"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff">P</FONT></td> The white P may makes it more understandable that this pin/way is plugged
7. <td BGCOLOR="#000000"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><B>P</B></FONT></td> making the Text bold makes it more readable, my opinion at least
9. <td BGCOLOR="#000000"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><B>X</B></FONT></td> This is for the showcase of a different Character

My favorite is 3. but with giving the user the option to put Text or Characters in the field could be a good solution, in this case I would make the text bold to make it more readable.

[tobiasfalk]

This shows longer Text, with XYZ the first 3 are Bold the later are not

[kvid]

Nice!
However, you should also think about how this might work in combination with todays feature bgcolor and the future feature fontcolor (currently on hold in PR #255).

In addition, this might trigger a need for an extra plugged option in ConnectorMultiplier to enable adding the correct number of plugs into the BOM.

[kvid]

If I understand you correctly, such a plugged pin can never be connected to a wire. In that case, it might also be an option to use the pin cell for such a plug visualization - both to save space in the diagram and to indicate no connection is possible.

[tobiasfalk]

If I understand you correctly, such a plugged pin can never be connected to a wire. In that case, it might also be an option to use the pin cell for such a plug visualization - both to save space in the diagram and to indicate no connection is possible.

I may not know of a situation where one would like to connect a wire to a plugged pin, but I can imaging some use case where those plugged pins are connected to something(like gnd or so). But a Warning could be a good thing

To #255 one way could be to just reverse the Text color and Background color.