I recently installed the trial version of DXP with SP2. I have not been touching Protel for a couple years, but FWIW, I do not remember having this problem in Protel 99 - it "just worked", so I cannot recall details.
I have an analog board with a few op amps that come in four packs :) I want to annotate it - initially, all designators are U?, and I already set correct part numbers within packages on each schematic part. There is only one sheet. When I annotate, all part-in-package numbers reset to 1, and designators are assigned sequential numbers. Suppose I have exactly 4 parts with the same LibRef and comment, that assigned part Ns 1,2,3 and 4, so they are initially U?A .. U?D. I recall that P99 automagically recognized them as belonging to a single package, and numbered them U1A..U1D. For the life of me, I cannot remember whether I did anything special for that.
Whatever I do, DXP renumbers them as U1A...U4A.
What really amazes me is that there were no messages with a similar problem neither on USENET not in this list; this is not mentioned in any whitepaper or the manual that I downloaded. Usually, this is an indication that I am either missing something ultra-obvious, or am doing something that should not be done. :)
What is the correct way to annotate multiple parts belonging to one package?
Thanks!
-kkm
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