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 > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user