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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it will be extremely useful especially as the designs become
more complex. Even while working recently with a board with < 200
components I was thinking of creating a similar tool to help manage
things.

- Cirilo

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I had to edit a lot of components in a schematic and doing it one-by-one was
> a tedious task without a chance to copy a field
> (as footprint) to many components in a single operation.
>
> To make this task easier I've made a new tool that I'm using now. It makes
> easier to select a particular group of similar
> components and copy a field from one to others. Here are some features
> implemented:
>
> -Shows the components in a 'spreadsheet-like' grid.
> -Can filter basing on one or more field values using a 'column filter'
> -It uses also regular expressions on fields to have maximum flexibility.
> -It has some 'easy' buttons to make easy to use the tool also for who does
> not know the regular expressions syntax.
> -Selecting a component on the schematic highlights the line for that
> component in the grid.
> -Selecting a component in the grid moves the cursor to the component in the
> schematic.
> -Columns can be moved and hidden.
> -Changes can be undone using the 'undo' function in the schematic frame
>
> A video (no audio) of this tool is available at:
> https://youtu.be/QCMddxkKe8k
>
> If it makes sense, I can start to 'beautify' the code (aka re-read all and
> check code style policy) and create a patch to send to the mailing list, so
> I'll wait to hear if it is a good idea to go on developing this tool or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Dino Ghilardi.
>
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