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combine two designs into one project

mikej_w

Hello!

     

     I'm sure that there is probably an easy way to take the contents of one

design and copy them into another... I haven't a clue how though. I am

currently looking through the ULP's @ cadsoft. Can anyone point me in

the right direction?

 

Mike

 

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  • If all you want is the schematic copied into an exsting design, then that's fairly easy.

    Draw a 'group' around all the parts you want and hit the 'cut' button (which does not 'cut' but instead 'copies' the group to the paste buffer) then right-click on any part of the group and select 'cut group'.

     

    Now close that schematic and open the destination schematic and press the 'paste' button. Voila. done.

     

    If you need to copy the schematic AND the layout, then it becomes a bit more tricky. You must first of all make sure that all the components on both schematics have unique names. There must be NO names existing on both schematics before the copy. Then do the same as above, to copy the schematic. The close the schematic and do the same cut-and-paste with the board.

     

    I hope this helps.

  • in reply to KennyMillar

     

    "Kenny Millar" <communitymanager@premierfarnell.com> wrote in message

    news:117449697.20671282859075727.JavaMail.jive@flcspu-csapp-01.premierfarnell.com...

     

    If you need to copy the schematic AND the layout, then it becomes a bit

    more tricky. You must first of all make sure that all the components on

    both schematics have unique names. There must be NO names existing on both

    schematics before the copy. Then do the same as above, to copy the

    schematic. The close the schematic and do the same cut-and-paste with the

    board.

     

    And then fix by hand, one by one, ERC errors, since in 99% of cases the new

    full schematic will not be consistent with the new full board, due to

    different names added by defaults to components and nets.

     

    It's faster to start from scratch, if there are more than 10 components to

    move.

     

     

     

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