Re: gEDA-user: PCB Renumber Was/Is Once Again

[andrew whyte <ajwhyte@xxxxxxxxx>]

  This isn't an answer to your question,  but I thought that it was
interesting as an alternative approach.

  I use different schematic pages for each section of my pcb.  Then
use  "refdes_renum  --pgskip" on the schematics, this makes the
schematics on each page start with that pagenumber.  Normally,  I then
layout the board in functional blocks, this means that components that
are usually in groups, and logically named.

  If you used a script on the PCB, you have to also back annotate the
schematics.  Anyone?


Andrew

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Mike Hansen <mehansen10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I brought up this topic a couple of years ago and left it for dead at
>   the time but now have the question again:
>
>   Is there a script that can be performed on a PCB design that will
>   renumber the components on the board in some spatial order(say
>   starting at the upper left hand corner of the board)?  It's easier to
>   troubleshoot a board when the components are numbered in a spatially
>   logical order.  And then once it's renumbered to be able to spit out a
>   Was/Is list so that you can back annotate with gschem?
>
>   Or looking at it from the other direction, can the renumber script on
>   gschem provide a log of the Was/Is component names so that I can
>   manually update PCB?
>
>   I'm trying not to have to renumber everything by hand.
>
>   Thanks!
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