Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-15 Thread Dan McMahill
gene wrote: > Dan, > > Does it handle hierarchical designs? > > gene no. It assumes that you start with a board with refdes's that match whats in the schematic, then you renumber and the changes are recorded in a "from -> to" sort of format. Then pcb_backannotate looks for exact matchs on

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-15 Thread gene
Dan, Does it handle hierarchical designs? gene ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-14 Thread Dan McMahill
Dan McMahill wrote: > Stuart Brorson wrote: >>> Is there a program that renumbers the reference designators in the PCB >>> file based on their placement on the board, and then changes the >>> schematic files to match? >> No. >> >> It's an important missing feature which is often discussed. Nobody'

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-14 Thread Dan McMahill
Stuart Brorson wrote: >> Is there a program that renumbers the reference designators in the PCB >> file based on their placement on the board, and then changes the >> schematic files to match? > > No. > > It's an important missing feature which is often discussed. Nobody's done it > yet. > > S

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-10 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Peter, On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:48 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > I ended up cheating when I needed to do this for some big hierarchical > designs. (The board assembler wanted re-ordered refdes on the boards.) > > I used pcb's renumber feature (which writes out a file of the things it > renumb

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:30 -0500, gene wrote: > > Done right (I don't know the algorithm), this tends to place > > components with close refdes numbers near each other. That way > > it's easier to find a particular component on the board because > > components with close refdeses are physically c

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-09 Thread gene
> Done right (I don't know the algorithm), this tends to place > components with close refdes numbers near each other. That way > it's easier to find a particular component on the board because > components with close refdeses are physically close to each other, so > if you're looking for C117 an

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-09 Thread Bob Paddock
After the PCB is fully layed out, then you do a refdes renumber starting at the top left of the board, and proceeding to the lower right. I believe the renumbering is based only on component position, not on any functional grouping. Then you backanno the new numbers

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-09 Thread Stuart Brorson
>>> Is there a program that renumbers the reference designators in the PCB >>> file based on their placement on the board, and then changes the >>> schematic files to match? >> >> No. >> >> It's an important missing feature which is often discussed. Nobody's done >> it yet. > > How does that type

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-09 Thread John Luciani
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a program that renumbers the reference designators in the PCB >> file based on their placement on the board, and then changes the >> schematic files to match? > > No. > > It's an important missing feature which is

Re: gEDA-user: Back Annotation

2008-11-09 Thread Stuart Brorson
> Is there a program that renumbers the reference designators in the PCB > file based on their placement on the board, and then changes the > schematic files to match? No. It's an important missing feature which is often discussed. Nobody's done it yet. Stuart ___