Re: gEDA-user: Renumbering Reference Designators

[Kipton Moravec <kip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 08:44 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote:
> > Is there a way to make it renumber like with --pageskip if the reference
> > designators already have a number? (ie C1 as opposed to just C?)
> 
> refdes_renum should do this. The --gentle flag is enabled by default
> (i.e. only renumbers C? style refdes's). Use the --force flag to force
> it to renumber all refdes's.
> 
> I think the online docs are out of date.
> 
> refdes_renum accepts the following options:
> 
>     --help      Displays this help message.
> 
>     --nocopy    If given, this flag leaves the modified files in new files
>                 whose names are generated by appending a ".renum" to the
>                 original file names.  The default is to overwrite the original.
> 
>     --pgskip    When this flag is used, components on the first schematic sheet
>                 are numbered starting with 101.  On the second sheet, they start
>                 with 201, etc  Specifying a value gives the step between pages.
>                 For example --pgskip 10 will start with 11, 21, 31, etc.
> 
>     --gentle    This flag tells refdes_renum to leave any refdeses
>                 alone if they already have numbers.  Use this option to number
>                 new components in a schematic which has already been numbered.
>                 Note that --gentle is set by default!
> 
>     --force     Set this flag to renumber all refdeses, whether they are already
>                 numbered or not.
> 
>     --verbose   Enables verbose output.
> 

Thanks I was not aware of --gentle or --force it is not on the online
documentation. 

Kip


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Kipton Moravec AE5IB
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