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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seth

Thanks!

I will start working on the mysteries of a merge request shortly. I want 
to make sure I have all my ducks in a row so I don't waste anybody's time.

This is the first time I have collaborated on a software project of any 
kind, let alone a big one like Kicad.

Brian

On 2020-01-09 9:39 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 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
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