Schematic linking

Schematic
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A newbie friend gave me a set of schematics that were created as individual schematics, not as additional sheets. As a result, nothing is linked. A net on one page doesn’t know the same net on another page. Somehow he still managed to create a netlist, but I would like the schematics correctly linked together. How do I do this?

TIA
Bruce

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Maybe he did not give you the root sheet and he actually may have used all the sheets as hierarchical sheets?

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Best way is probably to ask your friend what he did.

If he turns out to not be such a good friend, then:

  • Create new project with the top sheet.
  • Dump all the schematic files in that project directory.
  • Add hierarchical sheets in the project, and use the existing schematic files.
  • Repair / patchup.
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He’s a newbie. He doesn’t know what he did, but I think I have it figured out. He drew the root and 3 additional schematics in standard hierarchical format. Then for some reason he added 2 more sheets, starting a new hierarchy, making each one a root. Then he added the first root and its 3 sub drawings. It’s a mess but I can fix it, I think.

Thanks

Bruce

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You could point your friend to the FAQ for future projects. Especially this topic: Hierarchical or flat schematic design, what is best for me? (How to deal with multi page schematics?)

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