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> > To my way of thinking, it you do "annotation of *any* type" back to
> > the schematic, you need to keep it small, say 6 or 8 pins, then
> > rehook it up with some loose guideline like ratlines, or it gets to
> > be too much.
> 
> Why does everyone think that pin swapping requires changing the
> geometry of a schematic?  All we're doing is changing the pinnumber=
> attribute on existing symbols.

Without pin swapping change of schematic is needed. The point of pin swapping is there is no need change schematic only footprint pin numbers which may or may not have been assigned in schematic.


Nicklas Karlsson