[sdiy] (yet another) Eagle question..

[Jeff Farr]

Gah.  I was afraid of that.  I think I'm just going to copy the layout
itself over in the final step and deal with seperate schematics for
the digital and analog sections.


On 6/20/06, Michael Buchstaller <buchi at allnet.de> wrote:
> >Ok, I admit it.  I've not really figured out the eagle tech support
> >forum yet..  Am I really stuck using Outlook Express?  And there is no
> >search option?  Doesn't seem right..  I can't even post to it!
>
> hmmm strange.
> The Eagle support is a NEWS server, not a forum. And it allows
> everybody to post.
> Searching of course needs to be done in the newsreader, after
> downloading the messages - maybe outlook is not the best
> choice for that, but i have heard that it can do that.
>
>
> >All I need to do is copy *both* the schematic and layout from one file
> >to another, without getting that awful "board and schematic are not
> >consistant" message.  Copying the schematic is no problem, but I would
> >really rather avoid re-doing the entire layout!  What I am trying to
> >do is copy the analog section of the 808 onto the digital sequencer
> >that I have.
>
> Forget that. Copying the schematic and then re-doing the layout is
> the best way.
> There ARE tricks around how to do that, (closing the schematic,
> copying the parts/traces, closing the board, opening both and then
> manually correcting all the part names/numbers etc until you do no
> longer get ERC complaints) - but it will definitely be faster to redo the
> part of the layout, imho.
>
> -Michael
>
>