Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:01:29AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: >> Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> >>> My dilemma is: for design purposes I'd like to create a nice simple >>> circuit diagram of the kind created by pschem; however, for actually >>> building the device I need a second diagram showing the terminal blocks >>> and connections between them. I'm leery of maintaining two separate >>> diagrams and would like to have the second generated semi-automatically >>> from the first, much like the PCB layout is generated from the schematic. >> Sounds like you want to recheck the second schematic against the first >> netlist >> so no connection errors are made by having two schematics and netlists? > > If I have to maintain two schematic diagrams then, yes, I'd appreciate having > some way of checking that no wire is missed between the two. >
This is where a hierarchical sheet structure comes in. Many programs cannot do that but gschem can. I don't know how good it does in that domain but in old DOS-OrCad such board re-use and connection check was never a problem. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
