Tim,

Thanks for your e-mail!

> I'm a part-time developer of kicad and a part-time pcb designer.  My most
> recent project has a lot of duplicated circuitry in a three-level hierarchy,
> something which kicad does not support very well.  Kicad allows a hierarchy,
> but it does not allow different component references on different instances
> of the same schematic. e.g. the hierarchy is something like this
>      A
>   B    B
> C  C  C  C
> where each of the different C sheets originates from the same file etc.

GEDA does not support this as of now.  Several proposals have been
floated to implement this feature into libgeda (the .so which
underlies the various tools).  In fact, some of the developers in the
UK have presented UML drawing showing a new scheme for libgeda's data
structures which would support this type of hierarchy.

> I've spent the last two weeks trying to add this feature, but it is not easy
> :(  does g-EDA already have this feature?  I'll convert my schematics, if
> so.

Don't convert your schematics yet.  However, if you talk nicely to the
UK Peters, they might be interested in joining forces with you and
implementing some of their proposed ideas.  Personally, I'd welcome
that!

Cheers,

Stuart


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