Re: gEDA-user: Forward annotation too complicated

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

What I usually do is (1) remove the traces that connect to the
oriiginal component,
(2) place the new component and (3) add nets to the new component pads.
It is easier to remove traces without a component in place.

(* jcl *)


On 11/7/05, Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:05:24AM -0500, John Luciani wrote:
> > > 2) Presses forward annotate button, which saves the schematic, runs
> > > gsch2pcb, loads netlist into the PCB file and replaces changed
> > > components in the place they are / puts newly added components to upper
> > > left corner
> >
> > You may not want to change the components in place. If you change to a
> > larger package
> > or a package with different pin spacing it could take you more time to
> > cleanup the
> > mess than it would to place the new component.
>
> If you place the new component you still have to clean up the mess.
>
> CL<
> >
> > (* jcl *)
> >
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