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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-01-09 06:21, Brian Piccioni wrote:

> 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

Hi Brian-

This sounds like great news.  If you create a MR on GitLab we will 
better be able to look it over.  You can prefix it with "WIP:" to mark 
it work in progress.

-Seth


Seth Hillbrand
KiCad Services Corporation
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