Hi,

Although DipTrace seems to have everything needed for bus's and ports there is one ability missing which is extremely useful and that is port and bus aliasing, I am still trying to work through a situation myself that would use it, I am re entering some schematics to make a board to my own specs, these schematics are extremely large and have in some instances multiple occurrences of bus lines, individual signals and ports.
The ports and buses are named as an example Address Bus 3 and in some cases you will see things like Address Bus 1,3 then there are individual signals like RST.1.3.4 in which RST is expected to be connected to RST.1, RST.2 and RST.4.

If we could have aliases for address busses and signals so that you could have a signal or address bus that has a different number which is a reference to the first address bus and add repeated signals to each of the aliased buses / signals then this would make the problem vanish.

I.E
Misc Bus 1
Signal ABC
Signal DEF
Signal ZYX

Misc Bus 2 ( Alias Misc Bus 1)
Signal DEF
Signal HIJ
Signal KLM

Misc Bus 4 ( Alias Misc Bus 1 )
Signal DEF

In this instance the signal DEF which could be mentioned in many places throughout the schematic connecting to 1 or more locations would meet on the appropriate bus so if I had signal DEF.1.4 that signal line would go to Misc Bus 1 and Misc Bus 4 ( Alias ) but not Misc Bus 2.

I tried splitting a signal but it always results in the signal being renamed the last signal name entered.

Cheers

BTW my only other wish is that DipTrace be dragged into the .NET 4 era, the main windows atm look like windows 3.11 apps.

Please, no .net 4 for this. I use also use alibre and quickbooks, which use dotnet 4. These have slower startup, and little bugs that I believe are related to the framework.

DipTrace doesn't use .NET and will not use in future. We can change style of the software but I think there are more important tasks.