Re: gEDA-user: How to make a symbol short two nets was: (gEDA for terminal strip layout?)

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:01:29AM -0500, John Griessen wrote:
>> Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>>
>>> My dilemma is: for design purposes I'd like to create a nice simple
>>> circuit diagram of the kind created by pschem; however, for actually 
>>> building the device I need a second diagram showing the terminal blocks
>>> and connections between them.  I'm leery of maintaining two separate
>>> diagrams and would like to have the second generated semi-automatically
>>> from the first, much like the PCB layout is generated from the schematic.
>> Sounds like you want to recheck the second schematic against the first netlist
>> so no connection errors are made by having two schematics and netlists?
> 
> If I have to maintain two schematic diagrams then, yes, I'd appreciate having
> some way of checking that no wire is missed between the two.
> 

This is where a hierarchical sheet structure comes in. Many programs 
cannot do that but gschem can. I don't know how good it does in that 
domain but in old DOS-OrCad such board re-use and connection check was 
never a problem.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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