The perl script "Kdupe.pl" in the file area here might be coerced into helping.
It is mostly intended to aid in duplicating a complete board into an array for
a panel, and so by default it does not touch the reference numbers.
However, it does have an option to adjust the ref des numbers of successive
copies.
What you would need to do would be to create a board layout with just one copy
of the channel and then duplicate that .brd file using Kdupe.pl with the "r"
option appended. Open the result and copy the new array back to the original
layout (or use it as the starting point for the layout).
That gets you an array of identical sections with unique ref des numbers BUT
you may need to go back to the schematic if the algorithm used to assign
successive ref des idents doesn't match the netlist.
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Cat C <catalin_c...@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi There,
> I tried to make the subject descriptive, but here it is:
>
> If I have a design with 10 identical channels, can I lay one channel out and
> then copy and paste-it and somehoy get pcbnew to use the references of the
> next channel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cat
>
