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Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI



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On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:45 PM, John Doty wrote:

> 
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Paul Tan wrote:
> 
>> Is the case you mentioned above relates to the problem of "slotting" in
>> PCB?
> 
> No. It can happen whenever you have multiple symbols with the same refdes, regardless of the back end. Slotting is a particular case of this, but not the only one. It's a pure gnetlist problem, having nothing to do with pcb.
> 
> Here are two minimal files that demonstrate the problem. Don't bother opening them in gschem: they contain no graphics. But they each contain a single component, represented by two embedded symbols with the same refdes. The only difference is the order of the two symbols.
> 
> [Hikyuu:/tmp] jpd% gnetlist -g partslist1 foobar.sch
> Loading schematic [/private/tmp/foobar.sch]
> [Hikyuu:/tmp] jpd% cat output.net
> .START
> ..refdes	device	value	footprint	quantity
> thing	unknown	unknown	unknown	1
> .END
> [Hikyuu:/tmp] jpd% gnetlist -g partslist1 barfoo.sch
> Loading schematic [/private/tmp/barfoo.sch]
> [Hikyuu:/tmp] jpd% cat output.net
> .START
> ..refdes	device	value	footprint	quantity
> thing	unknown	unknown	horse	1
> .END
> 
> Note that in the case of "foobar.sch" the footprint is "unknown", while in the case of "barfoo.sch", the footprint is "horse".
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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