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[Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy

Axel Rau All Messages By This Member #23312 Hi all, I’m doing my 1st KiCad project. I created a simple parent sheet and a schematic of a circuit which should be repeated 10 times on the board. Everything worked fine but it seems that I have to do the layout 10 times manually, which makes the hierarchical design useless. Is there (in 6.0.5) any possibility to derive the other 9 layouts from the 1st one or even better to keep them synchronized? I found this FAQ where I read, this feature will be in 7.0 and the plugin, which did this job, does no longer work. What is current best practice? Axel --- PGP-Key: CDE74120 ? computing @ chaos claudius
Axel Rau All Messages By This Member #23313 开云体育 It seems, that the scripting console could help. Any hints? Axel Am 24.06.2022 um 22:56 schrieb Axel Rau <Axel.Rau@...>: Hi all, I’m doing my 1st KiCad project. I created a simple parent sheet and a schematic of a circuit which should be repeated 10 times on the board. Everything worked fine but it seems that I have to do the layout 10 times manually, which makes the hierarchical design useless. Is there (in 6.0.5) any possibility to derive the other 9 layouts from the 1st one or even better to keep them synchronized? I found this FAQ where I read, this feature will be in 7.0 and the plugin, which did this job, does no longer work. What is current best practice? Axel --- PGP-Key: CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius --- PGP-Key:?CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius
Tony Casey All Messages By This Member #23314 On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 17:43 +0200, Axel Rau wrote: It seems, that the scripting console could help. Any hints? I've never had to use the scripting console. What have you tried to update the PCB after changing the schematic? Are you saying Tools > Update PCB from Schematic (F8) doesn't work? If you were expecting it to behave like Eagle, it doesn't. -- Regards, Tony
Craig Burden All Messages By This Member #23315 You need to use the 'Replicate Layout' plugin to duplicate a layout for identical hierarchical?sheets. You can layout just one copy, place the pivots for each other duplicate sheets then just use the plugin to duplicate?them. You can get the plugin through the PCM, but anyway There is no feature to keep them synchronised, honestly that isn't really that useful, it sounds like a fancy 'software inspired' feature but when you are designing production PCBs where every trace matters, having things change without you explicitly asking them to would be terrible. You can just rerun the plugin when you have updated the layout.? Craig toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, 26 Jun 2022, 18:16 Tony Casey, <tony@...> wrote: On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 17:43 +0200, Axel Rau wrote: It seems, that the scripting console could help. Any hints? I've never had to use the scripting console. What have you tried to update the PCB after changing the schematic? Are you saying Tools > Update PCB from Schematic (F8) doesn't work? If you were expecting it to behave like Eagle, it doesn't. -- Regards, Tony
Axel Rau All Messages By This Member #23316 开云体育 Hi Craig, Am 26.06.2022 um 20:02 schrieb Craig Burden <craigburdenmsc@...>: You need to use the 'Replicate Layout' plugin to duplicate a layout for identical hierarchical?sheets. Seems exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a lot, Axel --- PGP-Key:?CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius
Axel Rau All Messages By This Member #23338 开云体育 All my power nets are global in my flat hierarchy. One of them is local to each sheet instance (individually fused). How can I make it local, i.e. rename it (functionally) from +5V to /SingleHub/+5V /SingleHub1/+5V … ?? DRC ?thinks', they are not connected (see attached image). Axel Am 26.06.2022 um 20:02 schrieb Craig Burden <craigburdenmsc@...>: You need to use the 'Replicate Layout' plugin to duplicate a layout for identical hierarchical?sheets. You can layout just one copy, place the pivots for each other duplicate sheets then just use the plugin to duplicate?them. You can get the plugin through the PCM, but anyway There is no feature to keep them synchronised, honestly that isn't really that useful, it sounds like a fancy 'software inspired' feature but when you are designing production PCBs where every trace matters, having things change without you explicitly asking them to would be terrible. You can just rerun the plugin when you have updated the layout.? Craig On Sun, 26 Jun 2022, 18:16 Tony Casey, <tony@...> wrote: On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 17:43 +0200, Axel Rau wrote: It seems, that the scripting console could help. Any hints? I've never had to use the scripting console. What have you tried to update the PCB after changing the schematic? Are you saying Tools > Update PCB from Schematic (F8) doesn't work? If you were expecting it to behave like Eagle, it doesn't. -- Regards, Tony --- PGP-Key:?CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius

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