I like a hierarchical schematic where I have a top.sch which has symbols for each of the major subsections and I use buses for most digital signal paths and nets for the analog paths to interconnect these symbols.
When you have designs with a thousand components on it I don't care how small your symbols are or how big your printer is it ain't readable. Steve Meier On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:22 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:33 PM, John Doty wrote: > >>>> Should I adjust the size of the symbols or the size of title-B.sym? > >>>> What is the correct way and how do I do that? > >>> > >>> I would adjust the size of the symbols. The standard symbols seem a > >>> bit too big > >>> for me as well. > >> > > That's not the paradigm. The way gEDA works is that you keep the > > symbol size constant in gEDA's arbitrary units, and make the extent > > of your page what you want to shrink them to the size you want. > > > > I personally find title-B about right for letter or A4 paper with the > > existing symbols. I like modules I can comprehend, not spaghetti > > going all over the place. I also don't want to give the bifocals too > > much of a workout ;-) > > > > Note that you don't have to use a titleblock at all. Some of my > > collaborators just put in cvstitleblock-1.sym with no frame, so the > > schematic just fills whatever page it's printed on. > > I rather despise the new-fangled "plop a component down and attach > netnames to each of the pins, with no lines going anywhere" > methodology, if that's what you meant by your spaghetti reference. ;) > > What I like to do is have large schematics with small symbols, > with a title block, and I print them usually at 11"x17". Would it be > reasonable to simply use a LARGE title block (say, E size) and scale > it to fit the page on the way out to the printer? > > -Dave > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user