I'm often in need to manually copy some old schematics in paper form (no CAD file), maintaining the original RefDes in the new DT document.
Now, if a begin from scratch and verbatim copy R56, C21, Q2 and so on, I can quickly buildup a machine readable schematic without effort.
In quite a number of cases, I encounter two versions of the same circuit, where the second has the same components, the same netlist arrangment, but randomly different RefDes.
Now, I would like to copy & paste the first onto a new document, and simply amend only the RefDes where necessary.
Is there a way to change a RefDes without affecting the numeration for the other ones?
I recognize that allowing the user to change, let's say, C1 to C5 when C5 already exists would temporarily broke the internal consistence of the netlist, but why don't allow a simple swap of C1 and C5, instead of messing up from C6 to the infinity and beyond?
