OKay... After some poking around, I found this... I have been able to verify, but IIRC, we used to be able to have U1a, U1b etc for different slots within the same device. Trying that anew today. It doesn't work. Netlist doesn't recognize them as the same, and neither does PCB. I think something changed. Can someone verify that I am remembering correctly. PCB version 20070208 gschem,gsch2pcb from geda-20061020 -Marc On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:04:19 -0700 Marc Moreau <lares.moreau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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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