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["Frank Bennett" <bennett78@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Alain M." <alainm@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is a nice idea :)
> 
> I have made a script allong the same way to change all refferences of 
> components in a .brd to a single size.
> 
> It would be a good idea to have all of these kind of utilities in a 
> single program!
> 
> - fewer drill sizes,
> - single/fewer text sizes
> - minimum/fewer line size on silk (some manufacturers specify minimum)
> 
> Here is the script, it is a single line shell script...
> 
> awk '{ if ($0 ~ /^T0/) {print 
> $1,$2,$3,"300","300",$6,"80",$8,$9,$10,$11} else {print} }' Test.brd > 
> Test.brd

This is the beauty of having an "ASCII Database". Those of
us from a Unix command line upbringing don't mind multi
scripts for this kind of thing (although a comment at the
beginning would be nice)

In the Tango/DOS days I did the same king of thing, track cleanup,
netlist DRC: report single or unconnected pins, multple names on 
same pin, shorted nets, etc.

Frank

> 
> Alain
> 
> klui_ escreveu:
> > My board was designed using different libraries and I've discovered 9
> > different drills! .5;.7;.8;.81;1.00;1.02;1.27;3.00,3.60
> > It's clear that we can simply discard .81 and replace it with .8,
> > 1.02->1.00 e.t.c. 
> > 
> > I've made a simple utility which makes the following actions:
> > 1. Read your .cfg file with "min...max" ranges and new values
> > 2. Replaces all occurences in the .brd file choosen
> > 
> > Take a look at screenshots "before" and "after". Between pictures is
> > .cfg file in form: "min1,max1,new1;min2,max2,new2..."
> > http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8370/bothzc3.jpg
> > 
> > P.S. Soon I'll make a documentation, "nicer look" and publish it.
> > 
> > P.P.S. Next version will also replace "pad sizes" and "via sizes"
> > similar way. Major bonus - it modifies .brd file, so later RUN DRC!!
> > 
> > I'm waiting for your feedbacks and requests.
>