Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
> I spent the morning making 4 new elements.  PCB worked great.  I saved
> my work every 5 minutes.
> 
> I closed PCB.  I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a
> change.  I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist.  
> 
> I opened myfile.pcb with PCB.  My custom elements are missing.  Where
> did they go ?  This actually happened to me yesterday as well.
> 
> Thanks

gschem2pcb removed them because it didn't believe they were part of the
net-list.

Were they named correctly in PCB?

If it removes correctly named elements which should be part of the
netlist, and in the schematic have the correct footprint= attribute,
then its probably a bug.

gsch2pcb behaves the way it does this because of the case where you may
change a footprint in the schematic, and you'll then need to delete and
re-place it in PCB, or if you delete a component completely from the
schematic.

You really need to save your custom footprints in a file which gsch2pcb
can find by looking at the footprint= attribute. It should then not
delete these components.

Before you re-create the work, take a look for the backup files gsch2pcb
makes when altering your schematic. You may be able to find the elements
you just lost.

Regards,

Peter C




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