Re: gEDA-user: resistors capacitors ect

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:04 PM, John Luciani wrote:

> Since the terminals of passive components (resistors, capacitors,  
> inductors)
> are connected to power pins, input pins and output pins you should  
> set the
> pintype to input.

Not "input", "passive". A node that's all inputs is an error, but a  
node that's all passives is perfectly reasonable and common.

I also note that drc2-type checking is mostly useful for pure digital  
circuits: for others it's poor at catching errors and often whines  
about things that are OK.

> (* jcl *)
>
> On 1/10/06, Marc <mark.price13@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > what do i add for things like footprint and pintype for capacitors &
> > resistors would it be pwr --/\/\/\/-- pwr or in --/\/\/\/-- out
> >
> > Checking: /usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-2.sym
> > Warning: Missing pinlabel= attribute
> > Warning: Missing pintype= attribute
> > Warning: Missing pinlabel= attribute
> > Warning: Missing pintype= attribute
> > Warning: Missing footprint= attribute
> > Warning: Did not find numslots= attribute, not checking slotting
> > 6 warnings found
> > No errors found
> >
> > Also as im doing this should i post the symbols to someone as  
> > working ?
> >
> > Marc :)
>
>
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> http://www.luciani.org

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx