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Cannot clear reference designators to start at 1

I have a schematic with multiple pages. I would like to reset the reference designators to start at 1 for sheet 1 and then continue on. If I clear the references by setting to ? and then attempt to annotate with incremental, it cannot start again at 1 unless I select "start each page at 1" which I don't want to do for obvious reasons. i don't want to use ref des control, all 5 pages are of one schematic, I want to go from 1-999 directly, not randomly skip from 100 to 200 just because the schematic is split onto 2 pages.

If I don't select "restart at 1", then it will always restart numbering at the highest reference designator from *before* I reset them to ?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

redwire over 4 years ago

Let's say you reset everything back to "?". You can then select page one and Tools->annotate but choose "Update Selection" and it will number everything starting at 1. You don't need to check "Refdes control" or "Reset reference to 1"

Then choose the design, Tools->Annotate and select "Update entire design" along with "Incremental reference update" and it will continue from the highest reference designator and go in order of the pages in the schematic folder. Two steps but I think it'll get you there faster.
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