Using leading zero's in part numbering

On 07/20/2012 04:04 AM, 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,...

 

Paul,

Look at renumber_sheet.sch.  It's included with 6.2.  It will do exactly

what you're requesting.

Read the usage comments at the top of the file.

Enjoy,

    - Chuck

Thank you for replying, Chuck.

I have tested this ULP: renumber_sheet.ulp (ulp-version 4.4.0).  But I don't succeed in renumbering automatically with component names looking as follows: R01, R02,... C01, C02,...

I do succeed in renaming them in R1, R2, R3,...

Or also in R101, R102, R103,... also works.

How are you doing this?

On 07/24/2012 04:31 AM, Paul Vandenbulcke wrote:

Thank you for replying, Chuck.

 

I have tested this ULP: renumber_sheet.ulp (ulp-version 4.4.0).  But I don't succeed in renumbering automatically with component names looking as follows: R01, R02,... C01, C02,...

I do succeed in renaming them in R1, R2, R3,...

Or also in R101, R102, R103,... also works.

 

How are you doing this?

Well... I'm not.  I just ran across this while researching an answer to

your problem.

However, using a plain text editor, look at line 179.  It contains:

      sprintf(NewNames[i[n]], "%s%d", NewNames[i[n]], ++k);

Change the "%s%d" to "%s%02d" to get 2-digit numbering, or to "%s%03d"

to get 3-digit numbering.

With a little creative programming, you could add a parameter or two to

a dialog box and generate this format string on the fly.

Hope this helps

On 07/24/2012 04:31 AM, Paul Vandenbulcke wrote:

Thank you for replying, Chuck.

 

I have tested this ULP: renumber_sheet.ulp (ulp-version 4.4.0).  But I don't succeed in renumbering automatically with component names looking as follows: R01, R02,... C01, C02,...

I do succeed in renaming them in R1, R2, R3,...

Or also in R101, R102, R103,... also works.

 

How are you doing this?

Well... I'm not.  I just ran across this while researching an answer to

your problem.

However, using a plain text editor, look at line 179.  It contains:

      sprintf(NewNames[i[n]], "%s%d", NewNames[i[n]], ++k);

Change the "%s%d" to "%s%02d" to get 2-digit numbering, or to "%s%03d"

to get 3-digit numbering.

With a little creative programming, you could add a parameter or two to

a dialog box and generate this format string on the fly.

Hope this helps

You're the man, Chuck.

Thanks for what you do here on the forums.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Cadsoft Support

Thank you very much, Chuck.

By adapting this line in the ULP, I get what I want.

In the first run I got some upcoming dialogs (almost for every component): R01 already exixts, R02, already exists,... but I used another ULP (renumber-sch-group_v2) to first rename them to another number-region (f.e. starting at R501) and after that it ran flawless.

By the way, I always use the ULP: "renumber-sch-group_v2.ulp" because it has some more options. Your tip is also working for this ULP (line 167).