On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:24:24 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak <k...@familieknaak.de> wrote:
> Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > No big deal, just copy the symbols from the component > > library into your new design project's Symbols directory as you need > > them. This small effort is, for me, completely worth it for the > > robustness provided by avoiding dependency on external symbol > > libraries. It allows me to feel bold about making improvements to > > my symbol library without requiring extreme measures to ensure > > compatibility with existing schematics. > > gschem almost allows a much more convenient way: > > 1) Draw the schematics with symbols from a central lib. > > 2) embed all the symbols in the schematics. This puts a copy of the > symbol in the *.sch file rather than just a reference. Thanks for pointing this out. However, I guess you can easily forget to embed one or two symbols. I prefer a strict and robust process, even if it requires manual intervention (e.g., to copy a file) once in a while. > That way, changes in the lib do not affect the schematic at all. > Unfortunately, does exactly the opposite. That is, it removes the > local copy of the symbol in favor of a rererence to a sym-file in > the library. The nasty side effect is that you may get an incompatible > version of the symbol. How do you update the symbols in a schematic when you actually wish to do so when they are embedded? Hopefully you don't have to delete and re-add them... that would require re-adding all customized attribute values too. > In addition, there is no way to export the > embedded symbol to some local directory. (Of course you can use a > text editor and copy/paste) Could you do "Hs" hierarchy down-symbol and then save it from there? Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
