Re: gEDA-user: footprint name's max length

[hiroshi <hiroshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I corrected footprint name but result was same.

I use SOD123-370L1-160W__On-Semiconductor  footprint for several  
components.

But I can find only one in .pcb file and  looks strange format as below.

Element(0x00 "" "" "" 0 0 120 0 3 100 0x00)
(
   ElementLine(-110 -40 -110 40 20)
       ElementLine(-110 40 -76 51 10)
       ElementLine(-76 51 100 51 10)
       ElementLine(100 51 100 -51 10)
       ElementLine(100 -51 -76 -51 10)
       ElementLine(-76 -51 -110 -40 10)
     

   Pad(-55 -6
       -55 6
       69 20 75 "1" "1" 0x00000100)
       Pad(55 -6
       55 6
       69 20 75 "2" "2" 0x00000100)
    

)-370L1-160W__On-Semiconductor(SOD123-370L1-160W__On-Semiconductor,Z501,43V)


And aslo following element is generated ! End of element looks a aprt of 
Layer.

Element(0x00 "" "" "" 152 50 3 100 0x00)
(
   Pad(7 13 30 13 14 "1" 0x00)
   Pad(7 39 30 39 14 "2" 0x100)
   Pad(7 65 30 65 14 "3" 0x100)
   Pad(7 91 30 91 14 "4" 0x100)

here comes about 240,000 pads
   Pad(7 2067026 30 2067026 14 "1731412" 0x100)
   Pad(7 2067052Layer(1 "solder")
(
)
Layer(2 "GND-sldr")
(
)
Layer(3 "Vcc-sldr")
(
)
Layer(4 "component")
(
)
Layer(5 "GND-comp")
(
)
Layer(6 "Vcc-comp")
(
)
Layer(7 "unused")
(
)
Layer(8 "unused")
(
)

How can I solve this problem  ?  I use 512M memory, Do I need more ?


By the way ,  reason I try to use gschem2xpcb is as Dan mentioned

>gsch2pcb places all footprints on top of each other but PCB has an 
action to disperse elements.

If i try to disperse element,  current  gsch2pcb  set  pcb  max size  
and  disperse  put  some components  outside of  PCB  area then  I can 
not drag those.

Thanks

Hiroshi


Ales Hvezda wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
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> [snip]
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> > Actually he said "gschem2xpcb" which is YAFAT (yet another forward 
> > annotation tool).
> >    
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> 	Ah, yes.  I am generally blind to all 'x' characters. :)
> Thanks for the correction.
>
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>  
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> > But yes, use gsch2pcb instead of gschem2pcb or gschem2xpcb.  The former 
> > is much more widely used and supported.  I think the main complaint 
> > which caused gschem2xpcb to exist is that gsch2pcb places all footprints 
> > on top of each other but PCB has an action to disperse elements.
> >    
>
> 	Agreed.  gsch2pcb is more likely to be maintained and is far more
> widely used.  Plus it's GPL which is just plain nice. :)
>
> 								-Ales
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