Using leading zero's in part numbering

Paul Vandenbulcke wrote:

I appologize if this item would already exist on this forum, but I didn't

find a search function here in the Eagle support subforum.

 

So, I'm able to change the name of the components. Using ULP's I can

renumber all components, even choose the starting number etc...

 

Is is possible to get leading zero's in components names?

An example: in the situation at this moment, components are numered like

this: R1, R2,.... R10, R11,  R101, R01, etc. I would like to have them

numered like this: R001, R002,... R010, R011,... R101,...

 

Why? Because when exporting the component lists to spreadsheats, it's far

more easy to sort them when they are numbered with leading zero's.

Otherwise you have them sorted in the strange way like this: R1, R10,

R101, R11, R2,...

The NAME command/icon works just fine for this. It will happily rename R1 to

R001 and so on.

That said, I prefer to renumber components by page number (R100 is on page

1, C530 on page 5, etc) Still sorts fine. Or for the freeware editions,

number components so related components in circuit function blocks have

related numbers. Nobody says the numbers have to be contiguous.

Paul Vandenbulcke wrote:

I appologize if this item would already exist on this forum, but I didn't

find a search function here in the Eagle support subforum.

 

So, I'm able to change the name of the components. Using ULP's I can

renumber all components, even choose the starting number etc...

 

Is is possible to get leading zero's in components names?

An example: in the situation at this moment, components are numered like

this: R1, R2,.... R10, R11,  R101, R01, etc. I would like to have them

numered like this: R001, R002,... R010, R011,... R101,...

 

Why? Because when exporting the component lists to spreadsheats, it's far

more easy to sort them when they are numbered with leading zero's.

Otherwise you have them sorted in the strange way like this: R1, R10,

R101, R11, R2,...

The NAME command/icon works just fine for this. It will happily rename R1 to

R001 and so on.

That said, I prefer to renumber components by page number (R100 is on page

1, C530 on page 5, etc) Still sorts fine. Or for the freeware editions,

number components so related components in circuit function blocks have

related numbers. Nobody says the numbers have to be contiguous.

Thanks for your reply.

I didn't know that this would work, but it implies manual naming of the components. I had hoped to get this automatically.

When drawing my circuit: first I place all components, nets, without paying attention to the component names. Then, when the circuit is finished, I use one of the few renumbering-components routines in the (downloadable) "user language programs", but all these don't us leading zero's.

Now, It's nice to know I can get my leading zero's by manually changing the names (twice). Yes, twice, because you cannot change a name from C1 to C01: then you get the message that this name already exists, so you first have to rename to another non-existing name and then to the leading-zero-name. Automatically renaming to intermediate names before manually renaming to the right names could be an alternative, but then you have to manually rename all components, not only the ones you want to give leading zero's.

Until now I always used automatic numbering, starting from 10 (if there are less than 90 components of the same type on a page) or 100, but this is not my 'preferred' way: I't s bit silly to have you IC's numbered U10, U11, U12, U13 when there are only four of them on a one-page-circuit. I know, this is only a minor detail and the names are there for reference only, but I would be nice to have the option in the ULP's dialog window to enter the minimum number of digits when automatically (re-)numbering components.