2014-04-02 9:22= GMT+04:00 Britton Kerin <britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com>:

I do it with the attached script.=A0 Its= somewhat ugly but works for me.=A0 From the header comment of the script:<= br>
# This script supports a style of repetitive layout in PCB in which you
= # do the layout for the first copy of a subcircuit, turn off 'Require # unique element names', copy the subcircuit layout, paste that subcirc= uit
# layout exactly once, then run this script to get the refdeses set = right.
# At some point you probably have to delete the not-layed-out ori= ginal
# elements with the adopted names as well.
#
# To do the above we tak= e a pcb file name which should contain exactly two
# identical sets of s= elected elements and a number, then find all repeated
# refdeses (e.g. t= he second "S1/R1") that occur before the NetList() line
# in the file, and change them to for example "Sn/R1", where n is= the given
# number.=A0 A backup of the given pcb file called given_file= .rrbackup is
# created before anything is done.=A0 Beware running this s= cript wrong twice :)

Britton

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Filippo Micheletti= <filippomicheletti AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Hi,
I use this way too,= but it produces long names and you have to provide an incremental "he= ad-number" foreach "module" you design... also when you past= e modules into a project you obtain not so clear numbering.
What I would to do is to design each module using the standard numbering (s= tarting from 1, using autonumbering tool) and then renumber globally all th= e used modules in a project applying new names to each module layout for pa= sting them in the whole layout of the project where I used them.

I found a renumbering plugin here (http://www.bo= urbonstreetsoftware.com/GEDAComponentRenumbering.html) it does the renu= mbering job, what it's missed is the creation of command files to renum= ber component on the single layouts... I think it should be not so hard to = do but I have no free-time to learn the gschem and pcb working and add this= functionnality :(

-Filippo-
<= br>

On 1 April 2014 10:53, Levente <lev= entelist AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Ten years ago, I've done the grenum uti= lity that does the job. However, the built in renumber function is good eno= ugh so I don't use it myself. What I do is I have 3 digit RefDes's = on each layout. The first digit (MSB) is the sheet number. So I have R100, = R101 on one sheet, and R201, R202 on the other. This can be done with the i= ntegrated tool.

So you can say that sheet N will allways be this or that circuit.=

I don't know if I got your problem right...

= 73! de HA5OGL

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Filippo Micheletti <<= a href=3D"mailto:filippomicheletti AT gmail DOT com" target=3D"_blank">filippomich= eletti AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Hi everyone,
does a tool for renumbering elements in a= schematic avoiding to reposition them on layout exist?
This woul= d be very useful to reuse circuits blocks with already done layout in other= projects...

Thank you

-Filippo-