ways to save time to copy a design previously made in to a new project..

[ican7]

Hi Robert, I would like to copy the part of a pcb that I designed previously, along with its schematic, in to my new project. However I have already started my new project and there are already many modules in it. My old design have many components. The problem is when I copy my old design in to the new one I dont want to spent a lot of time fixing the designators and the net names to prevent the duplicatons. Is there another way where Altium does it automatic to save time?

[robertferanec]

Can not you reset designators of you new schematic, copy and paste the old project (keep designators) and then just re-annotate? Of course, in case you have already started PCB, you would need to be careful about PCB <-> Schematic Symbol links.

[ican7]

ok how about if I make a project hierarchy ?

[robertferanec]

Maybe. I do not use hierarchy, but I think you may have an option to use a special prefix for components inside a block.

[ican7]

Thank you Robert. It works now.

[robertferanec]

Did you use the prefix?

[ican7]

My previous design I wanted to copy in to new one had so many components so I reset all the schematics on the new one and added the old one. But I really like to know how to copy multiple designs in to one design without manual modification of all the designators on both schematic and the pcb. I saw in some Orcad introduction videos the engineer easily copy one design in to another without a hassle why not in Altium?

[ican7]

Robert I found an easy way but I reckon this method is introduced in the Altium 17. Its called snippets. Did you know?

[robertferanec]

I checked snippets some time ago, but for some reason it was not very interesting for me - however I do not remember why