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Creating a module

aricbeaver

Hi,

I have 2 boards that I want to combine into a single board using modules. The boards do have very similarly named nets and symbols. After reading through some of the documentation I try the following steps:

1) Go to each of the 2 seperate boards and create a module with "Tools > Create Module". I select, by window, the outline of the board with the find menu "All On" and Global Visibitily enabled

2) Save module in modulepath 

3) Go to the empty board and choose "Place > Manually"

4) Add check box next under "Advanced Settings (tab) > List construction > Library" in the "Place > Manually" window

5) Go to "Placement List (tab) > Module definition" and simply place the module, as done with a standard symbol

The issue is that I can see the board outline imported but there is nothing else imported, i.e. symbols, shapes, vias, clines, etc. What am I doing wrong? Are there some hidden settings for the "Tools > Create Module" command that I am unaware of?

Thanks for any help,

Aric 

  • steve

     It doesn't quite work like that. For the bard you wish to combine the two module files in you need to ensure that it has a netlist that contains BOTH designs in combined.

    You also now can use the Place Replicate options to create an re-use the modules between designs but the key here is that is takes the detail from the netlist. Take a look at:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvx3fTOGYXw 

  • aricbeaver

    The problem is the reference designators are almost identical on the two designs. Usaully we for each design we add a "_1" or "_2" to the end of the reference designtors for say design 1 and design 2, respectively. I think this is messy and requires quite a bit of manual work. 

    The place replicate option seemed to work well if I just select the entire design and import it into a blank brd file. That way there isn't really a netlist required? The assembly layer gets updated with the name of the module as a preface.

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