Support for sheet.component reference numbering

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior]

In the "Generate netlist" wizard, when a have hierarchical sheets in my project, appear the option use "100 numbering" or "1000 numbering" to sub pages. I think one interesting option is "ref.sheet", so the same R components, in a two times added hierarchical sheet you appear with the reference value "R1.1" and "R1.2".

Also, this allow that one sheet add two times to the project do not need to appear more than one in the generated PDF (I think some of the professional EDA tools have this feature).

This you make a more easy pcb assembly to the developers analyzing the PCB silk.

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

Think in the sheet that will not appear more than one time in the stamped PDF, will be nice too to set the order that the hierarchical sheets appear in the PDF, not just the default by the XY position.

Sometime the better order to understand the project in not the XY. For example, micro-controllers layouts, usually the IC with crystal and so on stay at the center block (hierarchical sheet) and the output and input blocks to right and left (usually we want this central block as second page in the pdf).

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

Also component.sheet (or the opposite: sheet.component) is interesting, and
more used in others EDA softwares. Maybe a option to configure this.

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Hildo Guillardi Júnior
PhD student FEEC UNICAMP - Brazil

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 20:31 Jeff Young <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Hierarchical component Reference Value
> + Support for sheet.component reference numbering
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728269
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> Title:
> Support for sheet.component reference numbering
>
> Status in KiCad:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> In the "Generate netlist" wizard, when a have hierarchical sheets in
> my project, appear the option use "100 numbering" or "1000 numbering"
> to sub pages. I think one interesting option is "ref.sheet", so the
> same R components, in a two times added hierarchical sheet you appear
> with the reference value "R1.1" and "R1.2".
>
> Also, this allow that one sheet add two times to the project do not
> need to appear more than one in the generated PDF (I think some of the
> professional EDA tools have this feature).
>
> This you make a more easy pcb assembly to the developers analyzing the
> PCB silk.
>
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[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

On Altium is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFjA5sF2b0
9min32s