I have a schematic split into multiple pages just for convenience and ease of editing, not so much because it's hierarchical. I'd like to use the refdes renumbering feature to generate refdeses which are unique across all the pages, but it only seems to work that way if you have the pages in a hierarchy. Unless I'm missing something.
But assuming I'm not, what is the absolute simplest way to create a flat hierarchy? My understanding is that I have to draw symbols for each sub-schematic -- I suppose the symbol should just be a box with no inputs or outputs? I make connections across pages by using netname attributes -- I assume this will work within a hierarchy as well? Even just creating a box seems like a fair amount of overhead for such a simple case. Is there an easier way to do this? There are also a few parts of my schematic that are basically copy & paste operations, so I'm also considering using hierarchies to handle that repetition better, but I'm a little confused about the details. The docs on hierarchy seem to be pretty lacking in general. (Not a criticism -- I'd rather the developers spent their limited time writing code than documentation, to an extent.) For example, does slotting work across sub-sheets? If I have, for example, and analog input section that includes an op-amp, and I make that a sub-sheet and then put multiple copies of it on the top-level sheet, will the individual sections be able to be lumped into different slots of a quad op-amp? Can I control that process by manually editing attributes? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
