<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 3:58 PM Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
While this sounds very contrary to what Matthew is saying, I do have some sympathy for his view. I've also had circuits where I've drawn two different versions of the same thing, because (for example) I had a guitar stompbox circuit and I needed a diagram that showed the whole circuit including the external jack inputs and the effect in/out footswitch. You can do that on a schematic and show the switches and everything, but if you're designed a schematic to be turned into a PCB, those connections are just off-board links that don't tell you much ("connection1", "connection2" etc). So it *is* pretty easy to finish up with one version for "display" and one version for "manufacture", even with something as simple as a guitar pedal. Of course, you *can* work around this by adding non-netlisted graphics to the schematic that fill in the missing off-board components, but that *is* a fudge, and it is error-prone since there's no way to check those connections (and they're so often !<br>
the ones people get wrong!).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In kicad I've often done this sort of thing (also e.g. 2 PCBs that plug together) with separate sheets and headers on each side that are meant to connect to each other. </div></div></div>