X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 173.48.170.224 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3FE5F8BB-F648-41A9-8F99-C27342AACF9B" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-help] bus Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:32:03 -0500 References: <20181225111834 DOT e29cd8df36044144d0d7897d AT lucassen DOT org> <20181225115330 DOT 78856b78fea6a124e14328bb AT lucassen DOT org> To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: <20181225115330.78856b78fea6a124e14328bb@lucassen.org> Message-Id: <20CEBA8F-E37D-4552-A897-BA1184A4AC13@noqsi.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_3FE5F8BB-F648-41A9-8F99-C27342AACF9B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Dec 25, 2018, at 5:53 AM, richard lucassen = (mailinglists AT lucassen DOT org) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] = wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:18:34 +0100 > "richard lucassen (mailinglists AT lucassen DOT org) [via > geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" wrote: >=20 >> "Since buses are not currently fully supported by gnetlist, buses are >> commonly used only for documentation purposes" >>=20 >> I cannot imagine that buses cannot be used, that would make gschem >> practically unusable. Which options do I have to use to get = moreorless >> the same functionality? >=20 > Apparently I need to use netname on the connecting wires. Yes, or net=3D attributes on connected pins. Nets with the same name = will always be connected together, whether you draw a connection to a = bus or not. > And I happen > to see that N sometimes creates a / or \ bus entry, but I cannot force > the use of / or \. When the bus consists of two parts gschem behaves > differently. There are heuristics that control the angle of the bus connector. They = apparently worked for somebody=E2=80=99s workflow. But the bus connector = is just a symbol, so you may move, rotate or reflect it just like any = other symbol. It has graphical=3D1 and no other attributes, so it=E2=80=99= s ignored by gnetlist. You need not worry about placing or connecting it = wrongly. >=20 > --=20 > richard lucassen > http://contact.xaq.nl/ >=20 John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_3FE5F8BB-F648-41A9-8F99-C27342AACF9B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On Dec 25, 2018, at 5:53 AM, richard lucassen (mailinglists AT lucassen DOT org) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

On = Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:18:34 +0100
"richard lucassen (mailinglists AT lucassen DOT org) [via
geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

"Since buses are not = currently fully supported by gnetlist, buses are
commonly = used only for documentation purposes"

I = cannot imagine that buses cannot be used, that would make gschem
practically unusable. Which options do I have to use to get = moreorless
the same functionality?

Apparently I need to use netname = on the connecting wires.

Yes, or net=3D attributes on connected pins. Nets with = the same name will always be connected together, whether you draw a = connection to a bus or not.

And I = happen
to see that N sometimes creates a / or \ bus entry, = but I cannot force
the use of / or \. When the bus = consists of two parts gschem behaves
differently.

There are = heuristics that control the angle of the bus connector. They apparently = worked for somebody=E2=80=99s workflow. But the bus connector is just a = symbol, so you may move, rotate or reflect it just like any other = symbol. It has graphical=3D1 and no other attributes, so it=E2=80=99s = ignored by gnetlist. You need not worry about placing or connecting it = wrongly.

--
richard lucassen
http://contact.xaq.nl/

John Doty = Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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