1 This is grenum, an advanced refdes renumber utility for gEDA's
7 This program renumbers the refdes definitions read from input
12 There is another script called refdes_renum comes with geda-
13 utyls, but it does not care about slotted elements. grenum will
14 not renumber all refdeses, only, if a "?" is found in the refdes
15 definition. After the first run, you have to edit the refdes of
16 multi slotted elements, but after it, they won't be renumbered.
17 Moreover, the text after the refdes numbers are ignored. This is
18 useful, if you want to have e.g. IC3a, IC3b components on the
19 schematic. Unfortunately, the next layer, the gsch2pcb does not
20 ignore this, and will create a new component (am I right?).
22 As it was mentioned grenum does not renumber refdeses which were
23 already renumbered. However, it detects gaps between the refdes
24 numbers. For example, if you have IC3 and IC6, it'll start num-
25 bering new components from IC1 to IC2, and IC4-IC5 and after IC7.
26 This is essential, because gsch2pcb does not care about refdeses
27 (which is good), and if the refdeses gets totally renumbered
28 (gaps filled totally), then all your components will shifted, and
29 you have to move everything on your board.
33 This is very very tiny program, needs no external libraries, just
34 a working C compiler. If your C compiler is not gcc, you have to
35 edit the Makefile in the src directory.
37 To untar the package, issue the command
39 $ tar -jxvf grenum.tar.bz2
41 Note that you need bunzip2 and the tar utility.
43 To compile the code cd to the grenum directory and make the exe-
48 To install the compiled executable (as root) issue
54 To renumber your gschem file issue
58 for more information, see the manpage, and read the documenta-
59 tion, which you can't since I had no time write it. But it'll
64 Please send comments to
66 - levente.kovacs@interware.hu