auto reference designator renaming problem

I have three potential solutions for you, all of these are DE HDL actions. :

 1/

 Do you need to keep the numeric portion of the refdes?

 From the schematic, open the console window, and type:

set nextgroup a

find cap

auto property a $location=c?

wr

You will need to change "cap" to whatever the name of your schematic symbol for a capacitor is. You can also put these four lines in a text file, file - fix_cap.scr for example. Make sure the file is in the same directory as your cds.lib and .cpm project files. Then in the console window, type :

run fix_cap.scr

This will run the script on every page of your schematic.

 2/

Alternatively, use the following script to find only the broken reference designators. This will need to be done on a per page basis :

set nextgroup a

find cap

include a properties

find $location=R*

find location=R*

include b c

exclude b a

find cap

include d properties

exlcude d bodies

exclude d b

Group d should now contain just refdes starting R that are attached to properties. If you point this to a text editor with column mode editing (Crimson editor is good), changing the R back t a C should be easy.

3/

This is probably the simplest, but it will undo all of the naming work you did in the PCB tool.

 Go to your "packaged" directory.

Find the files pstback.dat,  pstback.dat,1, pstback.dat,2 & pstback.dat,3.

pstback.dat is the newest copy of your back annotation data. pstback.dat,1 the next newest and pstback.dat,3 the oldest.

 Open pstback.dat1 with a text editor, the format is nicely human readable. Find a cap and make sure it's C123 instead of R123. If it isn't, try pstback.dat,2 or 3.

When you have found your file, rename pstback.dat as  pstback.dat_old.

rename your file (pstback.dat,1 or 2 or 3) as pstback.dat.

Go to DE HDL and in the console window, type

backann path\pstback.dat

Where path is the full path to the pstback.dat file. DE HDL will back annotate from your file, restoring all of your old refdes.

I hope these work for you. I haven't tested them, this is from memory. So please back stuff up before trying and let me know if you get stuck. Obviously, once you've fixed the schem, you will need to export it from DE HDL and import it to Allegro to see the new-old-fixed refdes.