Hmm... I jsut tried it again, and sure enough. it doesn't work exactly as I described... I'll take a look at it tonight and get back to ya. -Marc On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:51:01 +0000 Seb James <seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:06 -0700, Marc Moreau wrote: > > > Ah, no, that's not it quite yet... > > > > > > I called my slotted parts U3501io and the power part U3501pwr. > > > > > > That means I have 4 U3501io symbols in my schematic and 1 U3501pwr. > > > > > > On the pcb layout, I get 2 footprints - one for U3501pwr and one for > > > U3501io... > > > > > > I tried a step further, and called the io symbols: > > > > > > U3501ioone > > > U3501iotwo > > > U3501iothree > > > U3501iofour > > > > > > And then I get 5 footprints on the diagram... > > > > Only put one footprint per refses, don't need one per symbol. > > Try putting all the one-time information in the pwr symbol, that way it will always be there, and if you don't need one or more of the io's all the footprint/copyright/documentation/foo attributes are still available. The only attributes needed for io's is 'slot'. > > > > Perhaps I should add a wiki article at www.geda.seul/wiki > > I volunteer to proof-read such an article. > > Things still don't quite work right here. If I call all the symbols > U3501 then I see the correct number of components on my pcb layout, even > though the design doesn't validate with gnetlist. > > If I name the symbols U3501io and U3501pwr, then I get two components on > my layout instead of one, but the design validates through gnetlist. > > It looks like the pcb program doesn't think U3501io is the same as > U3501pwr - it thinks they are two different components. Except that when > pcb reads in the netlist, it correctly understands that U3501pwr == > U3501io == U3501.. > > Seb > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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