gnetlist doesn't detect duplicate refdes

[ahvezda]

gnetlist (I've used the PCB frontend) does not detect
duplicate refdes.

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werner@work:~/daten/elektronik> grep R11 output.net
unnamed_net23 R11-2 Q1-B
unnamed_net19 S2-1 R11-2
unnamed_net6 R11-1 R8-1 U1-18
Z0 R11-1 U1-2
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Question is, should gnetlist recognize and warn about
duplicate refdes?

[KaiMartin (kmk-familieknaak)]

Currently, gnetlistg has no way to know, whether, or not a duplicate refdes is legitimate. There are various use cases that involve duplicate refdes. (slotted symbols, components with power supply split into a different symbol, components with large pin count split into parts, ...)

---<)kaimartin(>---

[Ethan Swint (eswint-ramu)]

On 08/23/2011 02:21 AM, KaiMartin wrote:
> Currently, gnetlistg has no way to know, whether, or not a duplicate
> refdes is legitimate. There are various use cases that involve duplicate
> refdes. (slotted symbols, components with power supply split into a
> different symbol, components with large pin count split into parts, ...)
>
It would be really nice if, when a duplicate refdes was found, that the
system would provide some notification and/or ask permission to link the
symbols. That would require a unique ID attribute be assigned to each
symbol, then their could be a delimited list of 'linked' IDs as a second
new attribute. This would also provide a method to preserve
autonumbering across split components/symbols. ('No the op-amp in the
bottom-left corner *needs* to be on the same chip as the op-amp on the
bottom-right. DFNSDK GM HG SHK gnetlist!!!')

-Ethan

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

This is a feature, not a bug.