I am learning Altium Designer and therefore I've shosen simple audio project. For the sake of Multichannel Designm I've created simple audio input port, which I am multiplying with Repeat
command and here is root sheet:
As you can see, AUDIO_INPUT is multiplied 8 times using Repeat
command and here is AUDIO_INPUT
"zoomed":
Now, when I try to compile the project, I get following error(s):
Class Document Source Message Time Date No.
[Error] Sheet4.SchDoc Compiler Duplicate Component Designators J2 at 2950mil,5050mil and 2950mil,5050mil 20:05:54 16.05.2018 1
Class Document Source Message Time Date No.
[Error] Sheet4.SchDoc Compiler Duplicate Component Designators J3 at 2950mil,4050mil and 2950mil,4050mil 20:05:54 16.05.2018 2
What did I do wrong? I tried to reannotate designators, I get same error.
Nomenclature:
- Sheet4.SchDoc is root sheet
- Sheet2.SchDoc is audio input sheet
I have deleted from and placed problematic components back to schematic and now the errors(s) are gone. But can someone tell me why?
ADDENDUM:
I have forgot to tell my project is under version control and I've commited project to repository, then deleted the contents of .Annotation
file (I've left the EMPTY file itself in project structure) and it compiled ok, but I hardly beleive this is the right way to fix this problem.
Best Answer
You probably have two components that have the same value in two different sheets, Example:
You need to rename the connectors in sheet 5 (or whichever sheet is offending)
Manually check all of the sub sheets and see if any two designators are the same
If that doesn't work then designate sheet1 and sheet2 first with lower numbered designators (ie J1-J4) and sheet5 to have higher numbered designators (ie J4-J5) so when it repeats it fills in J4-J20