Mail Archives: geda-user/2018/07/29/04:30:02
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 05:15:51PM -0500, John Griessen (john AT ecosensory DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 07/28/2018 02:04 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > No I can't!:-)
> >
> > I need to use sub-schematics to be able to fit everything on one top
> > level.
>
>
> What he meant was, if not using repeated elements of layout, you can just connect between
> sheets of a schematic with named nets.
>
In fact I do have a repeated element in on case, but maybe not the
others....
> That way, 1 top drawing can lead to all the rest, and have top level schematics showing boxes.
>
> If you want subschematics that you can "dive down to" with the GUI, it takes adding attributes
> to symbols. I create symbols for subschematics with http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen/tools/jgboxsym
>
> a variant of http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/djboxsym.html
>
> To link a schematic to a symbol,
> add an attribute source=xxxyourxxxnamexxx.sch to the symbol.
> make a schematic of the same name in the project directory.
>
> Give the subschematics refdes names like S1 S2 S3.
>
> Also add lines to a gschemrc file in the project directory:
>
>
> (source-library ".")
> (source-library "../module-a")
> (source-library "../module-b")
>
> and put your symbols in one of those directories
>
> Then you should be able to navigate hierarchy and make netlists.
>
> The netlists get longer names now, since each subschematic gets S1/R3 instead of just R3 now.
OK, thanks for all this information (and all the other answers).
--
Chris Green
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