AD6 has new things called 'snippets' for reusing chunks of either schematic or PCB fragments haven't played with them yet but they look intriguing and are designed for this situation
not sure what version they were introduced, might be new also AD6.3 has a lot of new toys that actually appear to be useful, it's almost as if they were listening to customer's wants ds _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 03:37 AM 7/13/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > normal. > > > the behavior you are seeing is how Protel is designed to work. Nets > are not assigned in symbol and footprint libraries (except for power > nets with hidden power pins). So there is no workaround. > > Instead, use the program the way it was designed. > > Do *not* save this block as a library. Absolutely, that is not what > you want. You have a collection of components there. If you save it > in a library, it will become one component. (If that is what you > want, i.e., a single component with an array of pads that are later > used to load more than one component, you can do that, but usually > this would be a bad idea, outside certain special applications.) > > Instead take your block and save it as a PCB file. Do similar with > the schematic of your block. Then, when you are creating a new > schematic, you can place (copy and paste) the schematic block and > wire it up. The schematic is what assigns nets. Then you load the net > list into the PCB (or synchronize the PCB or update it, this process > has been called by different names at different times). > > (You can also assign nets with a net list. If you have your PCB block > separated into its own file, and it has nets assigned, you could > generate a net list from it. But this is not usually a good idea. It > is *much* safer to create the net list from the schematic.) > > (If it happens that you are designing boards without first creating a > schematic, which people do from time to time, change your errant > ways! This may seem to save some work, but it does not really save > much under the best of conditions, and you will not be using the > checking tools and a whole host of facilities that the schematic/pcb > combination will give you. I create schematics even for very small boards.) > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
