Hi,
When tidying up and checking a large PCB design to prepare it for manufacturing, I end up in the Design Manager pane renaming some components in a more rational order. For a design with a couple of hundred resistors and capacitors with lots of different and repeated values, it becomes quite tedious because there are no bulk renaming functions.
Here's a hyper-simplified example. Say I have these resistors:
R1, 10kΩ
R2, 220Ω
R3, 1kΩ
R4, 220Ω
R5, 220Ω
...and say I want them to be renamed like this for a less error-prone documentation and manufacturing pipeline:
R1, 220Ω
R2, 220Ω
R3, 220Ω
R4, 1kΩ
R5, 10kΩ
To the best of my knowledge, since Fusion 360 rightly doesn't allow two components to have the same name at any given time, the only way to do this is to click each one individually and rename it twice. Now imagine you have 150 capacitors on a large board. That's a half hour's work by the time you click around in a UI that already has broken mouse scrolling.
It would be delightful if you could implement either or both of these:
1) Name swap: Select two components, right click, swap names.
2) Rename by value: Select multiple components, right click, rename by value (ascending or descending).
If I've missed something and there's already a way to do this in Fusion 360, please let me know!
Cheers,
Josh
Fusion
