Viewdraw renumber refdes

[mhandy]

To all, is there a way to renumber reference designators in Viewdraw schematic? I wqant to remunber from top to bottom and left to right. I need the schematic to be numbered this way and not the PCB.
Thanks
Mike

[Les]

As the system auto assigns refdes by instance number.
And the instance number is determined at placement.
There is no fast way to assign refdes automatically by your criteria.
It will have to be strictly a manual operation.

You could write a script that reads placement of the instance number and then reassigns refdes by that But it might be faster to do it manually.

[mhandy]

Les, thank you for responding. I had a sinking feeling there is no mechanism in Viewdraw to renumber. This is something that will be used more that one time. So I will have to bite the bullet develop a script. One of the complications is multiple sheets. I will also have to set up some kind of an array to scan the component instance and then change the ref des. Any other ideas?
Thanks
Mike

[Les]

Not really only that as the sheets are sheet 1-2-3-4 etc that becomes an easy thing.
good luck and if you get a good script going remember it will be useless next rev of viewdraw.