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duncanlowe · 12th Aug 2021, 4:21 pm

Do you have the option to allow the circuit design to be on a big 'piece of paper' then when it comes to printing, tell it to shrink it to A4?

Where I've worked with design / layout packages you split the circuit into blocks. Page one is the whole circuit, but as maybe 4 or 5 blocks, and only the signals that go between them. The following pages details what's in those blocks, which may be another set of blocks, until you get down to component level. It does mean you have to flick between pages to follow the circuit, but also makes it easy to print off on A4. It's kind of the same thing you do when writing code where mostly the top level code just calls a series of functions / subroutines.

12th Aug 2021, 4:21 pm	#7
duncanlowe Nonode Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Stafford, Staffs. UK. Posts: 2,532	Re: Circuit Diagrams sprawling over acres of paper? Do you have the option to allow the circuit design to be on a big 'piece of paper' then when it comes to printing, tell it to shrink it to A4? Where I've worked with design / layout packages you split the circuit into blocks. Page one is the whole circuit, but as maybe 4 or 5 blocks, and only the signals that go between them. The following pages details what's in those blocks, which may be another set of blocks, until you get down to component level. It does mean you have to flick between pages to follow the circuit, but also makes it easy to print off on A4. It's kind of the same thing you do when writing code where mostly the top level code just calls a series of functions / subroutines.