Comment 6 for bug 1773852

I am just now finishing up a design with a few instances of a repeated circuit (several inputs on a DAQ board).

Since I wanted identical layouts, I had to stitch it together working with gschem, gsch2pcb, pcb and emacs. I used gsch2pcb to generate the net list, but had to copy and paste the layout and then edit the identifiers with emacs.

Working back and forth like that, you have to be very careful to save and backup the pcb file before running the next round, or at least not fall for the trap of reloading the file after running gsch2pcb.

The other issue is that copy and paste increments the part numbers. I am not ware of any control to have it mangle instead. Hence I need to use the editor no the pcb file.

So here we have a very mundane and very likely, use case, and a few pitfalls in trying to do it.