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Re: gEDA-user: device attribute



Same tool, same name, different purpose. Keeps me in a constant state of confussion.

Now stuck on something that is probably trivial. gsch2pcb finds my new footprints but
pcb doesn't.

George

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:56 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote:

> Many of the symbols contain an entry in the form of "device=xxx".
> However these entries do
> not appear to in the ".sch" file when the symbol gets added to the
> schematic. We can manually
> assign a device attribute which appear to have the same syntax.
>
> Am I missing the process of importing attributes from the symbol files?
> What is the purpose of
> assigning attributes in the ".sym" file if they are not used?

The "device" attribute is read by gnetlist to know what to do with
each symbol.   The Scheme back ends use this attribute when deciding
how to process the symbol and write the corresponding netlist.  In
this sense, "device" is not an attribute for the user, it is for the
CAD package.  Therefore, it doesn't show up in your netlist or in your
(settable) attributes.

Stuart


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