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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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….

kren never worked for me.

The tool I mentioned, at  https://hasanyavuz.ozderya.net/?p=256 <https://hasanyavuz.ozderya.net/?p=256> , no longer works, at least with the nightlies.

-a



> 
> 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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