Hello All,
I've done a quick search through the newsgroups, but didn't find any thing
related to design reuse or a hierarchy design. I am new to Eagle and am
wondering if there is a way to reuse designs? I have a board with 4 copies
of the same schematic and some other schematics holding it all together. I
have copied and pasted the relevant schematics, however I would like to have
eagle place them on the board and route them based on a single board. Is
this possibe?
E
eSilviu wrote:
ok
who implement this, and where?
I think one of us (users) should do this job
That's a very good question. It is easy to propose these ideas 
but
implementing them, successfully, is another issue.
As I see it there are two obvious routes
a) set up some web based app that does it all. Providing a template for
something similar already exists, sounds simple but no doubt would take
significant commitment from someone to set this up... any takers?
b) do a quick and dirty version here. which would go something like
1. establish a basic list to be used e.g.
1. hierarchical schematics
2. import dxf
3. design re-use support
4. teardrops
5. explicit name for schematic sheets
6. on the fly DRC for track spacing
etc...
2. users gets to make 3-5, say, (TBD) choices,
and as long as everyone cuts and pastes from the original list, put in a tab
say, then your prefernce,1-2-3- etc, e.g.
1. hierarchical schematics 1
3. design re-use support 2
6. on the fly DRC for track spacing 3
Then this can be cut and pasted into a spreadsheet and sorted by column for
analysis relatively easily.
Again this is just some quick thoughts on it, any other suggestions or
alternative views would be good.
Advantages of this approach
quick (and dirty)
open - everyone can see the data
The guys at Cadsoft can see it... if nothing else it shows them that the
users care and are concerned about the product.
Does not require a great deal of effort from any single individual to set-up
Can be analysed by anyone.. if cadsoft are interested they can do it..
although I imagine there concerns lie elsewhere right now with the v5 release.
Alternatively I'm sure there must be several of the university based users
who have lots of time on their hands and could look after it all
In any event the first step is establishing a reasonable list of proposed
improvements. So any user (Uwe?) with a reasonable list who would be
prepared to set things off and post their list?
We should also take this probably to userchat for the moment, and then
eagle.suggest when/if some conclusions can be established. Follups set to
userchat.
cheers
David
