Re: gEDA-user: hierarchy refdes's

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if pcb supports this but...

In the Mentor Graphics Pads program you can make the refdes strings
invisible and manualy replace them with strings.
Each hierarchical block gets a silk screen line drawn around it. The
block gets a string naming its hierarchy

Thus you would have a block labled X12 and within that block a resistor
labled R12


Steve Meier





gene wrote:
>> Yes. Here's a fragment from a bill of materials from one of my projects:
>>
>> refdes  device  value   spec    footprint
>> X12/R4  RESISTOR        470     5%  1/10W        0603
>> X8/R6   RESISTOR        5       5% 35W  TO220SMD
>>     
>>> Is it perhaps better to create identical copies of each schematic,  
>>> label
>>> the refdes's on each.  That'll be more schematics overall and  
>>> harder to
>>> maintain changes.
>>>
>>>       
>> Depends on what the customer prefers. Of late, they've been happy  
>> with gEDA-style hierarchy.
>>     
>
> That actually helps since I wanted to number each front end with unique 
> numbers.  My intention was to use R100 for port 1, R200 for port 2. 
> Except that the prefix may get sort of long, this works.  It'll be 
> X1/X2/R1 for port 1
> X2/X2/R1 for port 2
> I just need to figure out how to handle the silkscreen.  There's a 
> thread on this subject somewhere that I ran across while googling last 
> night.
>
> thanks
>
> gene
>
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