Best way to join two busses?

[paulvdh]

You can rename a bus at the moment it goes into a Hierarchical sheet.

So on the top level sheet you name the bus: IN_[0..63], and in the hierarchical sheet you name the bus OUT_[0..63] and then connect the bus on the top level to the hierarchical sheet connector.

A while back I posted an example project with all sorts of bus behavior in:

Sheet pins and busses, partitioning the bus

I can confirm this behavior. I do not use buses much myself, but I am fiddling a bit with a test project for diferent variations of buses, and have attached the latest version of it. At the moment BUZZY2 in the root sheet gets connected to Truck[1] on the left sheet and to BUS_0 on the right sheet. [image] I am not sure whether it’s a bug or a feature. Also note the the order of declaration of the members of the Truck bus is reversed (which is legal). If the bus members were connected in t…

For posting on this forum, the forum software does some unfortunate translation. When you type two dots (which is what KiCad needs in a vector bus) then it displays three dots after submitting your post. You can prevent this by enclosing the name with backticks as both Qu1ck and I did.