I have a project that uses a cluster of LED's and associated components to
run those LED's. I have placed the parts and routed the traces, and I
have a power and ground pad.
Now I want to take that entire layout and copy and paste it in a grid
pattern on my board, so that in the end I will have a 10 x 10 grid of
these smaller layouts.
I know Eagle has the panelize script but I don't think that will work,
because the power and ground pad of each cluster should all be connected
together.
If I lay it all out in the schematic editor, it is just too much work to
individually place a few thousand components, when all I want to do is
place them once, and copy-paste them into 99 other locations.
I tried closing the schematic, which lets me copy/paste them in the board
editor... but then I get an error that my PCB/schematic are not
consistent. I tried having ONLY the replicated components on the board -
then closed the schematic, then pasted 99 copies in the board editor, then
opened the schematic, then copy-pasted 99 copies in the schematic editor,
but it still says the board and schematic are not consistent (because of
the component names, I think).
How do I most easily achieve this?
Thanks
MR
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