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Re: gEDA-user: Gschem to PCB pin names to numbers



Dan McMahill wrote:
Terry Barnaby wrote:
Hi,

I am trying my first board with Geda.
I have entered a schematic including the symbols: nmos-3.sym and
npn-1.sym. These symbols define the pinnumbers as G,S,D and B,E,C etc.

I have set the footprint to TO220STAND. This footprint defines the pinnumbers as 1,2,3.

When I use gsch2pcb it generates a *.cmd file containing lines like
ChangePinName(Q3, E, E)
ChangePinName(Q3, C, C)
ChangePinName(Q3, B, B)

When I use: "ExecuteFile(motorControl.cmd)" within pcb I get error messages like:

"WARNING! Pin number ending with 'G' encountered in netlist file
Probably a bad netlist file format
Can't find XM3 pin G called for in netlist."

So what's wrong ?
1. Should I change the gschem symbols to use pin numbers ?
2. Should I change PCB footprints to use pin names ?
3. Do I need a pinnumber to name translation file for gsch2pcb ?
4. Is there a problem with "gsch2pcb" ?

could you send what is in motorControl.net?

Did motorControl.net load correctly?

Hopefully I can take a look tonight (eastern us tonight) and figure out whats going on. Offhand though I think you want to use pinlabel for the names in your symbols instead of pinnumber. pinnumber needs to match the numbers in the footprint.

-Dan






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Yes, I believe motorControl.net loaded correctly. Its content is:

unnamed_net14 J1-8
unnamed_net13 J1-4
unnamed_net12 J1-2 C4-1 L1-1 XU1-1
unnamed_net11 R5-2 XM3-G
unnamed_net10 J1-10 R1-1 R2-1
unnamed_net9 C1-1 R2-2
unnamed_net8 C1-2 R3-1 Q1-C Q2-B
unnamed_net7 C2-2 R3-2 C3-1 XU1-3 R1-2 R4-2 Q3-C
unnamed_net6 R4-1 Q2-C Q4-B Q3-B
unnamed_net5 J2-1 J2-2 L1-2 C5-1 XM1-D
unnamed_net4 R7-1 XM1-G
unnamed_net3 R5-1 Q3-E Q4-E R6-1
GND Q1-E J2-4 J1-7 J1-5 J1-1 J1-3 J1-9 C2-1 C4-2 XU1-2 C3-2 XM3-S C5-2 Q2-E Q4-C XM2-S
unnamed_net2 J2-3 XM3-D R7-2 XM1-S XM2-D
unnamed_net1 R6-2 XM2-G


Cheers

Terry


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