Duplicate Part Designators

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Modified by Phil Loughhead on Feb 20, 2014

This compiler hint will appear when at least two parts across source schematic sheets in a design have the same designator associated to them. The message is displayed in the Messages panel in the following format:

Duplicate Component Designators PartDesignator at Location1 and Location2,

where

PartDesignator is the offending designator

Location1 is the X,Y coordinates marking the center of the parent part for the first instance of the offending designator

Location2 is the X,Y coordinates marking the center of the parent part for the second instance of the offending designator.

Default Report Mode

Error

Recommendation

Assign different and unique designators to the duplicates as required. This can be done manually, by editing each offending designator, or through use of the Annotate dialog (Tools » Annotate). A number of additional annotation-related commands are also available from the main Tools menu in the Schematic Editor.