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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I was not sure that you intended it as a functional mock-up or proff of
concept.

I have not yet had time to test it.

2018-01-15 18:17 GMT+01:00 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>:
>
>> On 1/14/2018 3:20 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Jan 13, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Dan Weatherill <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
>> >>
>> >> 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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