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

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Hansen wrote:
> I do find this useful(of course it was me that started the thread).   My 
> schematic workflow may not be the best. I just plunk down refdes's that 
> are unique and then when I get to the PCB I would like to simply 
> renumber and then do a was/is on the schematic once I am done.

Just to be clear, DJ was talking about the case where R1## are on page 
1, R2## on page 2, etc and was suggesting that a board level renumbering 
wouldn't mess with the 1st digit.  It is this particular case where 
you're trying to maintain some of the schematic numbering where I 
wondered if renumbering from the layout made sense.  In the case were 
you're globally renumbering from layout I can certainly see that it 
would be a preference for some people.

> In this day of automation the part numbering on the PCB may not be as 
> big a deal as it once was...back in the day the board stuffers had 
> people sitting on row after row of benches stuffing parts into the PCB 
> and sending them off to wave soldering.  It was a good idea to keep part 
> numbers in a logical order so that they weren't searching for the next 
> part to stuff on the board.
>
> But even when I do protos I find myself lost on the board if there isn't 
> a logical order.
>
> I will see if I can squeeze in some time to look at the example code to 
> perform this task.

ok.  I actually made a little more progress, but there are some details 
left on what it should do  to be worked out.

> > From: DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Renumber in PCB/Was/Is List
> > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:42:09 -0400
> >
> > > In this case, is there really much value in renumbering at all from the
> > > layout end of the flow?
> >
> > Good point ;-)
> >
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