Re: gEDA-user: NEWBY problem with "slot" function in Bill Wilson's tutorial

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote:
>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>     I have installed the gEDA suit from Debian and am working  
>>> through
>>> Wilson's gsch2pcb tutorial. Everything works fine except that the
>>> slot=1
>>> and slot=2 attributes don't seem to work. The pins on both opamps  
>>> are
>>> numbered 1 - 5. I have re-done the slot attributes several times  
>>> to no
>>> avail. My file setup is identical to the one in the tutorial. All
>>> of the
>>> information on the status screen, when firing up gschem, seems
>>> reasonable. Any suggestions will be appreciated. I am stalled until
>>> this
>>> is resolved. Please request any  additional information that you  
>>> think
>>> might be helpful.
>>
> In reply to the questions raised by John Doty, Ales Huezda and Dave  
> N6NZ:
>
> 1) I am using version 1.4.0.20080127 of gshhem.

OK, that's good.

>
> 2) As for as the slotted symbol is concerned, I hope this covers it:
>         Device       OpAmp
>        refdes         U101
>        symversion 0.1
>        netname   TL072

netname? This is a mistake!

>        footprint   DIL 8 300
>        slot            2
>
>     The slot 1 device is the same except the slot number.
>
> 3) I think the slot=2 is applied to the correct component because I  
> "s"
> clicked on the component to highlight, right clicked and selected Edit
> to pull up the attribute edit window and then edited slot to =  2.
>
> 4) In the process of investigating things, I noticed the following in
> the  log window:
>
>  Read system-gafrc file [/etc/gEDA/system-gafrc]
> Read ~/.gEDA/gafrc file [/home/gary/.gEDA/gafrc]
> Read local gafrc file [/home/gary/gafrc]
> Read system-gschemrc file [/etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc]
> Read ~/.gEDA/gschemrc file [/home/gary/.gEDA/gschemrc]
> Did not find optional local gschemrc file [/home/gary/gschemrc]
> Read init scm file [/usr/share/gEDA/scheme/gschem.scm]
> New file [/home/gary/untitled_1.sch]
> Closing [/home/gary/untitled_1.sch]
> New file [/home/gary/untitled_2.sch]
> Read specified gafrc file [/home/gary/gaf/Tutorial/gafrc]
> Did not find slotdef=#:#,#,#... attribute
> Did not find slotdef=#:#,#,#... attribute
> Loading schematic [/home/gary/gaf/Tutorial/one.sch]
> Read specified gafrc file [/home/gary/gaf/Tutorial/gafrc]
> Did not find slotdef=#:#,#,#... attribute
> Did not find slotdef=#:#,#,#... attribute
> Zoom too small!  Cannot zoom further.
> Did not find slotdef=#:#,#,#... attribute

It appears you are not using a slotted symbol. Are you perhaps using  
aop-std-1.sym rather than dual-opamp-1.sym?

>
> This was generated when starting gschem and editing slot=2
>
> I hope this information is helpful.
>
> GaryR
>
>>>
>
>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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