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bus feature that is really really needed

I've got 60 plus IC's that require a connection to a bus and they all share the same pin configuration outputs from the ic's to the bus.

Its seems to be no way in MS to "copy" the wire nets of one ic to mirror to the other ic's. I have to go pin by pin ic by ic to connect each and every one to the same bus.......really time consuming and tedious for no apparent reason. Orcad has this feature from 10 years ago......I really think it would be helpful to impliment this ASAP.


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opps.....just found the vector connect option......that may solve my problem......


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Ok

Vector connect did solve my major headache and orginal post, one thing I'd like to add is that it only works for one chip???

If I have 4 74540's that are all connecting to the data bus then it should do it for all 4 components if I selected the four chips > vector connect.

Another sub feature that would be useful is a "select all" for the pins side of the dialog and a select all AFTER the bus designator is selected.

Other than that, seems to make it a bit easier......but needs some minor tweaking.


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I didn't even know this existed. That is very cool. Gone are days of manually wiring busses like I have been doing. Thanks for bring this to our attention That will make life a lot easier for a lot of people. There is always something new to learn when it comes to Multsim (of course if I actually read the manual that may help).

You Rock Chris

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Kittmaster,
 
Thank you for the posting regarding the vector connect feature regarding busses in Multisim.  Hopefully this will assist other users.   I will check with the AE team to make sure the feature request you have noted is on our list.  
 
Patrick Noonan
Business Development Manager
National Instruments - Electronics Workbench Group
50 Market St. 1-A
S. Portland, ME 04106
Email: patrick.noonan@ni.com
Tel. (207) 892-9130
Fax. (207) 892-9508
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