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> > I would be interested to hear everyone’s ideas on slotting and mechanisms for grouping/associating heterogenous symbols.
> 
> The symbol name (or refdes) should be the sole indicator that something is grouped.  That is a group at the symbol level that has 
> no position or pin sequence order information in it.

I agree, refdes is good choice.

> I would use a separate script to process pin swaps that utilizes a pinswap number attribute that is
> not part of symbols as they are in the library, but added when you need it. ...

I agree swap information should not be part of symbols. It would however probably be good if pcb could handle swap especially pin swap of ordinary capacitors and resistors.


Nicklas Karlsson