Re: gEDA-user: hierarchy refdes's

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't it be nice if the fab shop were to use a different color solder
mask for each block


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:41 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 05:00 -0700, Steve Meier wrote:
> > 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
> 
> That was how I was thinking of doing my board.
> 
> PCB does support showing the "description" or "value" instead of
> "refdes". gsch2pcb uses "description" to stash the package it has used,
> so this is out.
> 
> The netlister does correctly transfer value=... attributes, so it would
> be possible to hack around this by using value="R1" or something like. A
> further option would be to modify the netlister script to take from
> "shortrefdes=..." or even to intelligently strip off the suffix from the
> real refdes. The fact this ends up in PCB's "value" field does strike
> somewhat as a kludge though, and you wouldn't get any automatic zoning
> of hierarchy levels.
> 
> I did think of modifying PCB's netlist view code to treat "/" as a
> hierarchy separator, and make a tree of nets to view. For large designs,
> that could be useful.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 



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