Re: gEDA-user: Symbols: mixed slotted elements and dedicated pins?

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:30 -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote:
>> Thomas Reinemann wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 17:23:18 schrieb Dave N6NZ:
>>>> My approach for something with slots, common control, and power would be
>>>> to make 3 symbols.  One for signal flow (slotted), one for control, one
>>>> for power/ground.
>>> Symbols belonging to the same device get same refdes, how do you handle the 
>>> footprint?
>> Ummm... I think I just assign the footprint to one symbol, and the 
>> netlister is smart.  I think I've also copy/pasted the same footprint 
>> everywhere using gattrib.  Anyway... I don't think about it much because 
>> it seems to work :)
> 
> As I recall, the netlister will find one of the elements and deem it to
> be that object. The netlist backend queries attributes by refdes name,
> and those names are used to lookup in a hashtable mapping name ->
> OBJECT. This leads me to strongly suspect that you should copy all
> attributes which the netlister might care about into all slots. 

Sounds like a good job for a plug in script.  It could check for 
conflicting assignments, and propagate to like refdes's.


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