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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/15/20 6:40 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote:
> I guess I'd wonder then why provide Copy and Paste/Duplicate if the
> result is not usable?

We should be ensuring unique time stamps when pasting footprints to
ensure any back annotation to the schematic is not corrupt.
> 
> It seems like a sort of honey pot.
> 
> On 2020-02-15 6:34 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 1:20 AM Brian Piccioni
>> <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think optionally removing the path might be a good idea - or,
>>     simply removing it from duplicated/pasted footprints. Of course I
>>     am probably missing something.
>>
>>     Brian
>>
>> You can't backannotate something which doesn't have the "path". But
>> those footprints can of course be re-annotated.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to cleanly copypaste groups of footprints
>> to create "duplicated design elements" as you say. Either they point
>> to one group of symbols while they should point to hierarchical sheet
>> instances (each of which have different path), or they don't have
>> corresponding symbols at all.
>>
>> If you have two footprints with identical "paths" you can reannotate
>> from eeshcema (with a warning IIRC) and both footprints will have the
>> same refdes. But it doesn't make sense to have two footprints with
>> different refdes to point to one symbol because the symbol has only
>> one refdes.
>>
>> Having identical paths in more than one footprints is problematic
>> anyways. I have used it but I don't recommend it.
>>
>> Eeli Kaikkonen
> 
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