Issue with led-3.sym
I have discovered that the led-3.sym symbol has the pins reversed, pin 1 being the anode and pin 2 being the cathode. With some research, I have also discovered that this problem appears with the diode-3.sym as well, and has been reported as a bug for that symbol. Comments indicate that this may be intentional for compatibility with some manufacturers which specify pin 1 as the anode of their product. The issue I ran into using the led-3 symbol in a gschem file which was to be used with ngspice, because of the reversal of the pins, the resulting netlist would not properly simulate. I solved the problem on my installation by changing the pinseq attributes on the pins, i.e. pin 1 has a pinseq of 2 and pin 2 has a pinseq of 1. This solves the problem vis-a-vis running ngspice simulations.
The question is, will this change of pinseq attributes cause any additional issues with pcb for example? I noted that in the comments on the reported bug, that changing the pin numbers directly did have potential of causing issues with pcb.
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