Keep designators value during copy/paste
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Vasyl Skral
When I copy/paste terminals from one part to another, I need to keep the terminal designator value the same after the paste as before copy. I see that I have these values in JSON structure but Flux changing this value after the paste command. We need this as we working on adding pin number information to ALL parts and without this feature, we can't move on.
Brooks Solveig
Hey Vasyl Skral, we consider this a feature, not a bug, so we're not going to prioritize it right now
Matthias
under review
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Vasyl Skral
I imported lot of parts this spring/summer before Flux have pin numbers and now my old parts have an empty pin# field. All my parts have correct description and properties, but no pin#. If I import all these parts from KiCAD lib again then I will get pin numbers but I need to add properties again(lot of work).
I don't wanna add pin# manually neither, because humans make mistakes and I have a library with good, checked by multiple engineers parts. And some of my parts already in use in schematics and this schematic will not receive footprint if I should import everything again(I will delete old part without pin# once I imported new one)
I have an idea to import parts again and copy-paste terminals(with names and pin#) into old part then delete part which I just imported.
Do you have a better idea?
It's really important feature and I hope we can find a solution
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Vasyl Skral
any updates?
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Bryan Hoyt
Vasyl Skral thanks for checking in. I just want to check I understand your use case here. My understanding is as follows:
- You have some parts you imported before Flux had pin numbers, so they have no pin numbers.
- You want to add pin numbers to these parts, but you don't want to manually enter them (avoid human error and unnecessary work).
- But you don't want to create a whole new part (because it would break circuits that use that part, I guess?)
- So your proposed workaround is to import a new part, and then copy-paste the pins from the new part into the old part.
- But that doesn't work, because the pin designators change on copy-paste.
Is that a correct understanding of what you're trying to achieve?
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Vasyl Skral
Bryan Hoyt: Yes, exactly!
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Vasyl Skral
Bryan Hoyt: please watch this video https://www.loom.com/share/3e2e2a89fad748849f27883255a39c55
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Bryan Hoyt
Vasyl Skral: Thanks, that's extremely helpful info!
See Brooks's earlier comment about our priorities on this right now.
That said, we can absolutely see how helpful it would be to have a way to correctly update pin numbers on older parts, especially when you have 1800 of them! We'll definitely keep this on our feature list (and I've added my personal vote to the feature), and will get back to you at a later date when we have some bandwidth to work on it.