Re: gEDA-user: Renumber in PCB/Was/Is List

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Hansen wrote:
> Does PCB have a renumbering command?  This would be a command that would 
> renumber the components on the circuit board say starting with the 
> smallest value in the upper left and then proceeding to the lower right 
> corner of the board.   And this would also generate a was/is list, 
> showing the old component refdes and the new one(ideally you would have 
> an app that could take the was/is and update the sch file).


Is there any value in having some controls to how the renumbering would 
work?  In particular, you might want to number left to right, top to 
bottom like:


R1 R2 R3
R4 R5 R6
R7 R8 R9

but maybe you want left to right then top to bottom like

R1 R4 R7
R2 R5 R8
R3 R6 R9

I guess one could support "tblr", "tbrl", "btlr", "btrl", "tblr", 
"tbrl", "btlr", "btrl".  Would this just create confusion?  It could be 
that "tblr" is the default if not specified.

Renumber()  <= uses tblr, prompts for filename
Renumber(lrtb) <= uses lrtb, prmopts for filename
Renumber(tblr, filename) <= uses tblr and specified file


-Dan



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