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Date: | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:36:20 -0500 |
From: | John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Sub circuits, naming and footprints |
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On 03/13/2014 01:52 AM, Geoff Swan wrote: > I've created a complete design with a schematic and pcb layout. I wish to re-use these as a subcircuit of a second design. > > I've used subcircuits before where I did the layout for each iteration of the subcircuit manually. What I am hoping is that there > is a way to reuse the layout of the subcircuit I've already created. > I had the idea that perhaps I could reference the pcb layout in the symbol for my subcircuit - but I don't recall this being possible? Yes, you can create a repeated subcell as gschem and pcb are now. JC Luciani wrote some scripts that help with this. > > My alternative is to use sed or something to make a few different copies of the PCB layout with the components names prepended to > match the schematics subcircuit naming scheme and then copy these into the PCB layout. > > Does any of the above make sense? I'd be keen to hear how other folks do this sort of design. See: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen/ http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen/tools/pcb-hier-cells If that doesn't get you going, email me for a zipped up example project dir and libs. John
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