Re: gEDA-dev: [Filtered!] Strange results running gsch2pcb on theattached file.....

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 09:18 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This attached schematic file is giving me really strange results:
> >
> > I'm using:
> >
> > gsch2pcb -o untitled-1 test-1.sch
> >
> > Consistently... the component "R2" gets output in PCB with name "5511".
> 
> Does R3 also get named "5511" or is it just R2?

Not for me.

> I do not have the footprints for "ACY300" so I changed the R2 and R3 footprints
> for "0805" and R2 and R3 were named "unknown". If ACY300 is generated using
> m4 you may want to check the macro code.

I'll give that a go. ACY300 is a geda M4 symbol, axial component,
300mils. Do you not use the geda M4 library?

> (* jcl *)
> 
> P.S. For some reason the University of Cambridge email filter thinks that a file
> with the extension .new.pcb contains a virus. You may want to rename the
> file prior to attachment ;-)

I've just had a morning long email-argument with the admins about that..
Apparently files with double extensions, eg. .new.pcb confuse windows
into representing the file as one thing and executing it as another.
I'll have to rename before sending next time.


Regards

Peter Clifton




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