Circuit repetition on a PCB ??

[alexglvr]

Hello,

I am working a Board design using Altium Designer in which a part of the board is repeated 5 times.

I then defined this repeated part of the circuit into a sub-schematic.

I would like to route this part of the schematic only once...

How can i do that?

Thank you for your help,

Alex

 

[Rob B]

Look up Design Snippets.

It was introduced in AD6.0.

 

[loosemoose]

you can to this also with multi channel design.

 

[dipnirvana]

may be use board-arry in altium

 

[alexglvr]

In my top schematic, I have several instance of the same schematic.
I then have a structural schematic hierarchy
(as it is presented in the wiki **broken link removed**)

When I update my PCB, altium generates several "rooms" each of them being associated to a sub schematic....

When I update the board, alitum generates several "Rooms", one per sub schematic.

For example, if my top Design uses 3 sub_schematic :
- toto.sch,
- titi.sch
- 4 x tutu.sch

The generated board will contain 6 rooms (toto, titi, tutu_1, tutu_2, tutu_3, tutu_4).

The goal is to route tutu only once...
I tried routing it and making copy/past, but I then have conflicts within component/net names...

I did not find how to associate a "PCB Circuit" to a schematic...

(In the Wiki, in the multi channel design chapter, they present how to implement several time a schematic, but they do not explain the next step... How to make the PCB of this multi channel schematic...)


Thank you for your help,

Alex

 

[FvM]

As with most other tools, copying routed modules or "snippets" in Altium Designer seems to start with a routed instance of the
subcircuit. It doesn't work, if you have drawn the schematic instances before. You either have to delete them or to rename each
net and component. Alternatively, you can copy the PCB artwork and rename the nets (which would be even more time consuming,
I think).

 

[loosemoose]

you need top use the 'copy room format' command.
there are several command for rooms. Look under Design -> Rooms.
see also TR0112 PCB Editor and Object Reference.PDF in your help folder.