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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