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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been working for several months to incorporate RenumKicadPCB 
functionality inside Kicad. Meanwhile, Alexander Shuklin has done most 
of the heavy lifting by writing back-annotation into Kicad which does 
all of the error checking, etc., necessary for re-annotation to work. 
Without his help I don’t think I could have done this.

Geographical re-annotation is under PCBNew/Tools. It should provide the 
same functionality as RenumKicadPCB but from within Kicad. I am hopeful 
I can submit a merge request which will be accepted so it will become 
part of the distribution. Of course, given my modest c++ skills I 
suspect that will not go smoothly!

I have tested the code with all the projects I used to test 
RenumKicadPCB and it appears to work. Besides renumbering correctly, it 
seems to detect project errors such as modules in the PCB which are not 
in the schematic, etc.

I would be grateful if people who are interested in this functionality 
would help test it and let me know if they have any problems or suggestions.

The source code is at

https://gitlab.com/BrianAtDocumentedDesigns/kicad/commits/reannotate



Thanks


Brian