Summary: After replicating placement and routing of a section in the PCB, I'm having problems assigning the net name to tracks, vias, polygons, etc. from the net name assigned to the pad it connects to on the new replicated section. I tried John's suggestion and I replicated the placement of the parts. I also copied the tracks, polygons, vias, etc. from the original copy to the new one. So, now I have the original copy routed correctly with every track, via and polygon assigned to its correspoding net. And I also have the new copy with its tracks, vias, etc. but none of these routing elements have a net assigned. So far, everything ok.
Then, I first tried in the "netlist manager" to "update free primitives from pads." That messed it all up, my previous routed section and the new one, both were assigned a random net name all over (vias, tracks, everything; it even renamed my part's pins). So, then I didn't save those last changes, and back to the point before using the "netlist manager", I tried to "Update PCB" from the schematics and I selected the choice "Assign net to connected copper." (I didn't generate component or net classes since I already had them created). Well, it assigned all of the routing to my Digital ground (DGND), including the original routing (the one that had a net name already), and it also renamed the parts' pins to DGND. So, the net class DGND has all of my parts' pads. The rest of the net classes are all empty. Then, I cleared all nets and net classes, and let the "Update PCB" to create them again, and it did the same thing. It assigned all my pads and tracks to DGND. Any suggestions. Thanks again. David --- "John A. Ross [Design]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave > > That's why I mentioned using a sensible grid to snap > to when placing the > parts, sorry I missed giving the reason for my > statement 'use a sensible > grid' as of course the larger the grid, easier to > move the parts and > snap to the grid as the parts are identical they > will have the same > origin. > > Always in a hierarchy I have controlled how the > sheets have been > annotated, by giving them a separate number > sequence. > > Perhaps you could manually update the parts with a > prefix of 1xx on just > the sheet you want to replicate? > > Look forward to the follow up. > > John > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
