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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mar 13, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a patch for eeschema that adds "Reset existing annotation, but do not swap any units" to eeschema. This first compiles a list of multi-unit parts and all of the components that comprise them, and then on annotation, annotates all of them as a group. For example, if components were originally R3B and R3C, they can be annotated to R5B and R5C, but never R5B and R6C, or R5A and R5D.
> 
> I wanted this feature so that I could re-annotate a project to tidy up the references, while not losing symbol->footprint mappings that already exist in a routed PCB.

Brilliant. I will try this.

-a