Re: gEDA-user: Heavy Symbols and such

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave N6NZ wrote:
> 
> Ben Jackson wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:11:35AM -0800, Steve Meier wrote:
>>> One way you can do this today is to at the schematic level add a
>>> footprint attribute to each symbol as you place them. The pain is that
>>> if you have a thousand resisters you have to do each one individualy.
>> I basically do this.  I place one resistor, mark it 0603, 10k and then
>> I try to only cut'n'paste it from then on.  Sometimes I royally screw
>> up my refdes's as a result...  Maybe gschem needs a 'copy without refdes'
>> option.
>>
> This is where I use gattrib.  I set one in gschem, and then do all my 
> attribute copy/pasting in a gattrib pass later on.

If you use gsch2pcb, then if gattrib could sort on several terms,
you could update a thousand resistors in one spreadsheet command in gattrib.

JOhn G

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