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Shashank Chintalagiri wrote:
: You can do what you want by simply drawing a short net out from the pins
: you want to connect.  Be sure to edit the attribute of the net,
: specifically put in a meaningful netname.

	This works, thanks!

: Do the same for wherever you want
: to connect it to. As long as the netnames match, they will be treated as
: the same net. Make the attribute visible for it to show up visibly and in
: printouts etc.
: 
: Personally, I find this tends to make pretty but fundamentally unreadable
: schematics. I would suggest you look at the symbols in the Input/Output
: section of the standard library for what to do when you need to connect
: across sheets. This does, of course, work within a sheet as well but
: overuse can lead to unreadable schematics. It's basically slightly prettier
: way to do what renaming the net does.
: 
: If all your source and destination pins are grouped, such as in a parallel
: bus or any other meaningful grouping of signals, I would encourage you to
: explore using buses instead of nets.

	Thanks for the suggestion. I wanted to use it for a situation
where I have a complex interconnected group of components (e.g. a step-down
converter), which is connected to the MCU by one or two wires - I don't
want to clutter the schematics by these inter-group connections.
(see http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/bike-lights/#schematics for what I mean
by cluttered schematics: having the PWM outputs on the other side of MCU
than the step-down converter PWM input leads to long and unreadable nets).

	Of course, when overused, using labels instead of lines can also
lead to unreadable schematics.

-Yenya

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