gEDA-user: Re: power connections and hierarchy

[John Luciani]

On 1/5/07, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk at familieknaak.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:28:16 -0600, John Griessen wrote:
>
> > A netname on a net or attached to a placed symbol is global when
> > netlisted.
>
> I attached a netname to a net in a subsheet. The netlist produced by
> gsch2pcb contained this netname prefixed wuth the refdes of the sub sheet
> symbol. So the netname is local to the sub sheet.

You probably have hierarchy-netname-mangle enabled which will attach the
prefix. What I usually do is tie the mutliple power nets together in the top
schematic. This not too bad since I do not have too many subcircuits.

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