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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jan 15, 2018, at 12:22 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Also, it is hard to argue this to be used in KiCad when it uses PyQt.

What I mean is that the functionality should be part of Kicad, not this particular implementation.

For those wondering why this is important — after we (day job, and every day job I’ve had since college) finish the board layout, we re-annotate the PCB so that the reference designators are geographical. This is purely for the benefit of the humans who assemble, rework and debug designs. When a board is a sea of parts, being able to find things by physical location makes life easier.

There is already a Python script [1] which does this, and it works well.

-a

[1] https://hasanyavuz.ozderya.net/?p=256


> 
> 2018-01-14 22:24 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> On 1/14/2018 3:20 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 13, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >> apologies first for the (unrelated to 5.0 stable) spam.
> >>
> >> I have been working for a while on a back-annotation tool for kicad. It is
> >> finally in a shape where I feel it's worth letting others look at it and
> >> getting some feedback. You can find it here:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/weatherhead99/kicad_backannotate <https://github.com/weatherhead99/kicad_backannotate>
> >>
> >> Any issues or comments very welcome!
> >> I hope to work on getting something like this into kicad itself in the longer
> >> term.
> >
> > I will test this soon!
> >
> > IMHO this functionality should be part of Kicad, not an external tool.
> >
> > -a
> 
> It's on the v6 road map and will eventually be part of KiCad.  If users
> want to use an external tool to do this, that's fine but it's not
> something that I would include in KiCad.
> 
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