Hi,
Multichannel placement (no routing or zones done yet, just component location) gave me a “Topology error” on the 3rd out of three replicas for no apparent reason. Internal component names are not the issue, that is, letter-digit format without underscores or the like.
What triggers the failure is when I connect GND differently on the sheet’s hierarchical nodes. That is, any signal on external node “A” and GND on external node “B” of all sheets works. But change one replica’s external node “A” to “GND” and I get a “topology mismatch” in Tools/Multichannel/Repeat layout.
Thought I’d pass this one on (awesome feature, BTW).
EDIT: Even a missing GND connection causes Topology error, it seems. Net ties to the rescue (outside the replicated sheet on any node that is potentially GNDed)
Just for the record if someone else reads this, hierarchical multichannel operation is apparently not supported (yet). So the replicated design needs to be “flat” without sub-sheets (happy to be corrected…)
Version as below:
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x64 on x64
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