by Miles Nicholson
As a default, when you add new components into a schematic, the new components will assume the next available component tag irrelevant upon where you place the component in the set of schematics. If the design has not yet gone to manufacture, then of course you can do a project wide retag of components and/or a renumber of wires.
However when you are ready to issue a project for manufacture, you may wish to fix component TAG’s, wire numbers and item numbers to avoid the possibility of items being changed inadvertently after build has started or indeed completed.
Simply select the Project ribbon tab > Project Tools panel > Utilities
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