Steve Meier wrote: > Subcircuits within subcircuits tends to produce strings of reference > designators such as "S1/S3/S7/U1" which is a horrible ref designator for > the final schematic. But I have hope in the future that PCB will also > become hierarchical in which case a group of land patterns will be given > a group name and that groups can have groups within. Thus: > > Group S1 contains > > S2, S3, S4 > > and group S2 contains > > S5, U1, U2, R1, R2, L1 > > and group S5 contains > > U1, L1, L2, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, R1, R2 and R3 > > now I can draw a silkscreen outline around all of group S1 and include a > bit of text "S1" > > then within the S1 silkscreen I can draw silk outlines for S2, S3 and S4 > > and within S2 draw a silk outline for S5 > > groups should be able to be copied and then just the group reference > designator edited which automatically renames all the full reference > designators for the entire group. >
A tricky issue with this scheme is that just because a component is in a particular subcircuit doesn't necessarily mean that it will be _geographically_ located near to the other components in that subcircuit... Peter -- Quake II build tools: http://peter-b.co.uk/ Latest QuArK: http://quark.sourceforge.net/LatestVersion
