Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:25 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:10 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:37 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think I have to rename all of them, including John Luciani's.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > You have components in your schematic named Rf and Cf without numbers.
> > These seems to have no connection in the netlist.
> > The missing number in refdes seems to be a problem.
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, seems to be all fixed now, see
> 
> http://www.ssalewski.de/tmp/armin20100417.tar
> 
> 
> refdes without a digit at the end of the name seems to be indeed a big
> problem, I am not sure if this is stated at a prominent location in the
> gEDA/PCB documentation?

Specifically, it is the _lower case_ letter at the end which is ignored.
It was a (mis)feature designed to support "IC1a" "IC1b" as the same
part, "IC1" in the netlist.

I don't "think" upper case letters at the end of a refdes (without a
number) cause a problem.

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Peter Clifton

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