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odd schematic ref-des

eric_engineer — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:38:11 GMT

Some of my symbols have ref-des's that are showing up as U$10 or U$7$G2 for a multi-symbol part. Any idea what's causing this? I'm using >NAME in the symbol just like all the others.

Thank you.

Re: odd schematic ref-des

eric_engineer — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:02:51 GMT

Ah well, at least the U$7$G2 appears to be how fusion does mutli-gate parts. What a pain it is to place multi-gate parts across schematics though. You can't just place a new gate on the next page you have to "invoke" and get the next gate on the first page you placed. Only then can you move it to the new sheet manually. But not by copy and pasting because that doesn't work, and don't try to select it and drag it you have to select and choose the move command first...

Re: odd schematic ref-des

jorge_garcia — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:58:37 GMT

Hi @eric_engineer,

When you make multi-gated parts in the library you can name the gates something more sensible. The most common option is to use letters for the gates A, B, C... also in the device editor click on the Prefix button and define the prefix you want the component to have, the U$ default isn't useful generally.

In regards to the Invoke functionality you are correct but select and drag should work. You have to drag to the edge of the drawing area move into the sheets section, select the sheet you want and then when you hover back over the drawing area you'll see the part floating on your mouse cursor. Agree this workflow could be better.

Best Regards,