Re: gEDA-user: Non-numeric refdes allowed in PCB?

["harry eaton" <bumpelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a feature. All trailing lower-case characters are stripped from the
Refdes for the netlist. The purpose is so that you can have array elements
labeld U1a, U1b, etc. They are actually "U1" of course there is not
requirement for a number you could have "RPOWER" or "RpoweR" just don't end
with lower case.

harry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Brorson" <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geda-user@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Non-numeric refdes allowed in PCB?


> I should say that PCB will accept the refdeses, but it can't seem to
> find any nets attached to components with alpha refdeses.  That is, it
> seems to think that there is no pin named (for example) Rbypass-1.
>
> Just some additional info. . . .
>
> Stuart
>
>
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Well, I just realized that PCB doesn't accept refdeses like "Rpower"
> > or "Cfeedback".  It only wants R3 and C17.  Questions:
> >
> > *  Is this true, or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > *  How easy would it be to fix this?  Are component refdeses stored as
> > char *, or are they somehow turned into numerics?
> >
> > If it's easy to fix, I may try my hand at it.  But first I though I'd
> > ask. . . .
> >
> > Stuart
> >
>