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Placing two different designs into the same board
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Tommaso Sabìa 3 years ago
Hello, My name is Tommaso and I am a beginner at EasyEDA. I have been trying to find the solution to my issue in all ways possible - browsed the forum extensively, watched YouTube tutorials, searched on the web; but I have yet to find a proper answer. Sorry if this may sound trivial to the more experienced. Basically, I have a couple of different designs that I want to try out for my PCB. Since they're small (43 mm is the largest dimension), they can fit side-to-side in a 100x100 mm square, which would lead to massive cost reduction for both me and the manufacturer. However, I can't find a way to actually join the two designs into the same PCB project. I know it sounds silly but I have only been working on the single PCB and I wouldn't wanna start from scratch in order to place 2 of them into the same panel. I tried the most trivial copy&paste from the two different projects, but I'm left with all these unlinked ends (blue lines) and it seems to me that it's not the proper way to do this. Anyone has a better solution? Thanks in advance! ![Screenshot (75).png](//image.easyeda.com/pullimage/Ls24sw7TLgCUnHWDAYxh1eY7039b2BkxKx0RcNMA.png)
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andyfierman 3 years ago
Two ways. 1. Upload the Gerbers for one board into JLCPCB and then select Panelise by JLCPCB. 2. Look up PCB Modules in the Tutorial then save your PCB as a PCB Module then place two instances in one board outline and draw a V-Cut line on the board outline layer between the two.
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Tommaso Sabìa 3 years ago
@andyfierman Hello! Thank you for your help. A couple of doubts: 1\. Doesn't this prevent me from including different designs into the same board \(which is my end goal\)? Panelizing by JLCPCB only multiplies 1 single design\, right? 2\. Didn't know about modules\. They look interesting\. Is this approach any different from just copying and pasting the PCB from another project? I can't find a way to place the module at an EXACT position\, whereas I can select an exact point when pasting a copied selection\. Thank you again!
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andyfierman 3 years ago
"1. Doesn't this prevent me from including different designs into the same board (which is my end goal)? Panelizing by JLCPCB only multiplies 1 single design, right?" Sorry, you are correct. There is currently no way to easily merge two projects into one. All the schematics on a project are mapped to a single PCB so if you want two separate designs on one board they need to be drawn as schematics in a single project. What you should have done is to have put both designs into schematics in the same project and then laid them out onto one PCB as two separate areas. For placing modules, have a look at the forum topic on Extensions. There might be something helpful to you in there.
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Tommaso Sabìa 3 years ago
@andyfierman thank you again for your time. Yes, I figured that's what I should have done from the beginning, but I'm learning only just now and the whole project is evolving. I guess I'll stick to the ole good copy&paste hoping that it doesn't screw everything up.
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andyfierman 3 years ago
The ratlines in you copy and paste are because the netnames are duplicated when you do that. You can either: 1. add a suffix to one set of netnames to avoid the ratlines appearing or; 2. simply ignore the Incomplete Nets DRC warnings that the ratlines will generate _as long as you are certain that there are no incomplete nets in the original PCB before you copy and paste its duplicate_. :)
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