He is referring to hierarchical schematics. There is a section in the manual for hierarchical schematics. Also, there is another recent thread where I encouraged the OP to convert his schematic with 4 repeated sub circuits to a hierarchical schematic. See the second half of this post for my result (pdf only) and some notes I wrote about hierarchical schematics: (One of these days, I’ll actually spell “hierarchical” correctly an not rely on spell check to correct me. Apparently not even in this parenthetical…
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It also might be instructive to read over the full thread to see someone else’s design options and decisions (and I think he might have attached his project to the thread after he converted to hierarchical schematic to give you something to play with).
You sure it is a file? It should be a folder, and named (in US-english localizations) “AppData”. The environmental variable %APPDATA% actually fully resolves to “C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Roaming”, but Microsoft doesn’t want normal people to access that file so it is hidden.
You would need to enable it in Windows using the “File Explorer Options”. Set the setting that I have my mouse pointer on in this screenshot:
I hope your absence is for good things. In that spirit, I wish you an enjoyable weekend.
