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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

There has already been discussion on this some time ago.  I would not us
the Altium room moniker.  The last time we discussed this, the term
"group" was used so that you can associate items in the schematic with
items on the board by a group name rather than limit this two individual
sheets.

On 3/7/2018 1:25 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Not sure how you would turn this into an effortless feature, but a few
> months ago I’ve designed just that, replicated channels using the same
> subsheet, on layout I did it once, then copy pasted and manually renamed
> each component based on each channel number component.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:42 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > Since my day job involves a lot of engineering
>     planning/timelines/etc, I've had this rolling around in my head...
>     > I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
>     >
>     > I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to
>     play with; I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps
>     if get some buy-in for this.
>     >
>     > Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email) with
>     thoughts on this.
>     >
>     >
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
>     >
>     > Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into
>     Eeschema for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software
>     basically being "whatever people have time left over for". 
>     Everything else has been bumped to 7.0
> 
>     I’ll add one more to the list, clearly it’s a v7 wish … layout
>     “rooms,” like the Altium feature. Consider a multi-channel design
>     where you have to replicate a layout several times. It would be nice
>     to define the channel in, say, a hierarchical subsheet, and the
>     layout knows that it should replicate the work you do for one
>     channel across the others.
> 
>     I realize that this is a completely non-trivial thing to implement,
>     and further I recall some discussion about this but nobody had any
>     real good ideas about how to do it.
> 
>     -a
> 
> 
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