Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/PCB quick start tutorial?

[Marc Reibel <marc@reibel-web.de>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> I played around a little bit with:
>
>   gnetlist -g PCBboard -o PreAmp.pcb PreAmp.sch
>   gnetlist -g PCB -o PreAmp.net PreAmp.sch
>
> and indeed the PreAmp.net file appears to be a netlist.  However, the
> Preamp.pcb file seems to be noticibly bare.  There is some stuff there,
> but no Elements at all.  I tried out gschem2pcb, and after changing
> --lines to -n for head(1) and tail(1), it runs, but the output is not much
> better.  No elements still.  I have the 'footprint' attribute set for all
> of my components.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> -Dan
>

Have you named them all?
E.g. U1 U2 U3 U4 R1 R2 R3 C1 C2...?
gnetlist only lists parts with correct footprint _and_
names.

Marc
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