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On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
GENE GLICK <geneglick AT optonline DOT net> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but a while back I did a 
> multi-channel design, and wanted to copy the layout of one channel to 
> another. So, I did the first channel layout. Then highlighted it, and 
> copied the channel (initially, the cut/paste has redundant refdes). If 
> you highlight the new channel, and save it. At this point, the .pcb file 
> has an easy to parse flag on all the parts that require a new refdes.
> 
> I wrote a program to go ahead and swap the highlighted text to whatever 
> I wanted it changed to. Worked great. The next time you open up pcb, 
> everything is all ready to rock.

Yes I have done the same to, this is why added possibility for changing refdes for elements in buffer only to discover someone already did it as a plugin.

Now only problem is to change old design. If objects for a particular channel had an attribute to tell which channel they belong, or a section for each channel or a list of objects for each channel it would possible to replace all objects for a channel with a new copy. It would also be simple to move a channel. I called it a sub circuit instead of a channel yesterday.

Nicklas Karlsson