@MitjaN I did an experiment with the project in this thread. I first created a root sheet with 6 “column” hierarchical sheets, and in the column hierarchical sheet I created 8 “row” hierarchical sheets. The Idea was to only draw a single resistor and 3 LED’s, and then let the Replicate Layout plugin do the rest, but it did not seem to work. I’m guessing the Replicate Layout does not support nesting in this way.
Because it did not work, I eventually changed it to a schematic sheet with 8 resistors and 24 LED’s (easy copy & paste) and only used the Replicate Layout plugin for a single “replicate level”.
A few questions:
- Is this supposed to work?
- Is it useful enough to pursue at all? (It will mostly be for schematics with lots of repetition, you need a lot of “reference” components, and simply using array functions may be a better approach to similar problems).
It could also be related to this:
Apparently there is a bug where the Replicate Layout plugin does not work correctly with empty schematics.