Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb refdes label error

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ales,

Thanks.

When I add a reference designator to the toplevel block the refdes of
the component
in the bottom level block has the format   TOP_BLOCK_REFDES/COMP_REFDES
I am assuming this is the correct operation of gsch2pcb.

If the blocks nest to multiple levels will the format be 
BLOCK1_REFDES/BLOCK2_REFDES/..../BLOCKn_REFDES/COMP_REFDES

(* jcl *)

On 6/21/05, Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> >When running gsch2pcb on a schematic that contains a hierarchical
> >block the components in the lower level block have incorrect refdes's
> >in the PCB layout. The incorrect refdes's are preceeded by a 'U?/'.
> [snip]
> 
> 
>         You need to attach a refdes attribute to the toplevel block
> (in your schematic that would be the hblock.sym component).  After I did
> that, I could run "gnetlist -g geda top-level.sch" without getting any U?
> components.
> 
>         Let me know if that doesn't help.
> 
>                                         -Ales
> 
> PS. You are the first person (that I can remember) to post a schematic
>     with embedded components. :-)
> 
>