Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Doolittle wrote:

>> All the cutting, sed-ing and pasting of the subcircuits to multiple
>> instances, with replication of later changes on all copies is pretty
>> unflexible.
> 
> Agree 100%.

+1

Cloning, referencing, or whatever we may call it, would need
a fair amount of programming. Given that nobody has stepped
up yet to implement it, this may be pie in the sky. 

In the meantime, a more powerful copy procedure could reduce
the effort:
Imagine, the copy-buffer action would accept a string parameter
that it adds to the refdes property of every footprint before
actually pasting to the layout. If this string matches the
string gnetlist attaches to subsheet symbols, the copied block
of layout would fit the netlist. On copy, other footprints with
the same refdes should be automatically removed.

Extension of this concept is obvious -- Add numeric parameters
that are interpreted as coordinates relative to the current 
origin. An integer parameter for multiple copies. An angle
parameter for incrementally rotated blocks...

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