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[Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This was just intended as a tidy-up of the existing script/GUI I have been 
using myself for a while. There are at least two other attempts, the one that 
Andy refers to, and also KRen (https://forum.kicad.info/t/i-wrote-a-program-to-automatically-update-pcb-refdes-and-back-annotate-to-the-schematic/3561) 
probably due to not investigating these enough before getting NIH syndrome I 
wrote one as well....

Dan W

On Monday, 15 January 2018 20:30:52 GMT Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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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