I agree...Mentor allows you to do a schematic (viewdraw) that is multiple pages, and when you do the netlist it pulls in all the pages...so you have a zillion of them sitting there.  Then layout one page worths, and then you can do a copy and paste in Expedition that will retain the tracks.  Great for memory arrays  :-)

Vasile Surducan <piclist9@gmail.com> wrote:  Zilion meaning at least 20,000 (or 20.000 for the europeans) ?
Copy and paste is the answer. Mentor graphics.

On 1/26/08, Peter Todd 
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> I've got yet another project consisting of about a zillion little leds
> all in a huge array and am rather tired of laying out this stuff by
> hand. I'm planning to write some python scripts and what not for gEDA to
> automate this.
>
> So, in industry, how do you guys handle these sort of problems? I'm
> assuming these $50,000/seat pcb layout/schematic capture packages I keep
> hearing about can do more than automate routing for you.
>
>
> I'd like to do my best to write a fairly generic set of software for
> this stuff, as in the future I've got a project planned that would
> essentially involve making arbitrary-defined "model railroads" The
> software would take a file defining the paths in the railroad, then
> generate a schematic with the appropriate amount of electromagntes and
> drivers and automatically lay them out on the pcb in the correct places.
>
> Well, that's the plan anyway. :)
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