John, Thanks for that. I think I may have mislead a bit by saying that I wanted to edit my attributes in the schematic. Thinking a bit more and reading your comments of course I wouldn't want to edit much in a schematic for the reasons you describe. If I wanted to convert all the R's and all the C's from 0805 to 0603 then I'd want to do it at the symbol level and not directly in the schematic.
I guess your comment about "The problem with the local library is that its scope isn't a project." means that if I edit a symbol then the scope of that change is across all projects and not just one particular project. So if I changed a resistor footprint from 0805 to 0603 then all resistors in all projects using that symbol would change. On the other hand if I needed to edit a footprint say for a different PCB manufacturer's guidelines then that might be what I wanted ..... It hadn't dawned on me that I could make symbol libraries project specific. I need to think about it a bit more and perhaps look at what gattrib can do for me. Cheers, Andy. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user