Re: gEDA-user: A component cannot contain another component?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool! Another way to do subcircuits. I love it! Radical flexibility...

On Nov 1, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:13:23 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
>
>> Was there something specific you were trying to achieve by inserting
>> components in a symbol file?
>
> I do this all the time. It allows me to insert often used sub circuits
> from my local library. The components inside these blocks are
> automatically updated as I tweak my symbols in the lib. See the  
> paragraph
> "block" in my section of gedasymbols for examples
> ( http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/kai_martin_knaak/ ).
>
> I use "Include-as-individual-objects" to import these blocks into the
> actual schematic. Thus, there is no recursive structure in the  
> *.sch file
> and gnetlist has no reason to object.
>
> Bottom line: symbols inside symbols allows for a more powerful  
> libbrary.
> Please don't remove this feature.
>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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