Dave C wrote:
Well, I forgot to mention that I am using Protel 99SE w/SP6 version. I am sure DXP has tons of new nice features and improvements, but it is out of the question to get it for now.
Although this is a one time project, I have more than a dozen identical sections, over 500 parts more or less. I get tired just thinking I have to manually rename all of these, not to mention how easy it will be to make a mistake doing that.
Any other suggestions ??
There are ways to do this in 99SE. The flatten hierarchy function is part of it, but it does a rotten job of handling the component designators, which most people want to do something like R101, R201, R301 being the equivalent part in each section. You can give each part a designator that is unique enough that you can use it as a qualifier in a global replace on all sheets. I usually don't get this all set up right the first (or second, third...) time, but after a few tries I get it in such a shape that I can flatten and renumber the sections the way I want.
You can also just duplicate the sheet that contains the section, and then use a global edit to change the part designators as desired. For instance, if you have the master sheet with RZ1,RZ2,QZ3, etc. and then do a global edit on section sheet 3, you replace Z with 30, and you get R301,R302,Q303, etc. I do LOTS of boards with 16 sections like this, where almost the entire board consists of these sections, and 800+ components.
Jon
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