Re: gEDA-user: gschem won't connect nets

[Paul Probert <paulprobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Luciani wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Paul Probert <paulprobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Paul Probert wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>    Today gschem got into a snit with one of my diagrams, and refused to
>>> make a connection when drawing a net from a pin on a symbol to another
>>> net. That is, the end of the net is left with the red box, and won't
>>> make the yellow dot when it hits another net. Also, the netlist will
>>> show a pin disconnected, as verified by PCB not showing any rats going
>>> to the pin.
>>>    I suspect there's something in my schematic, some homemade symbol
>>> that's throwing it into a tizzy.  All my pins are on 100 mil grids as
>>> far as I can tell. Anybody ever have this kind of trouble?
>>>    I am using 1.4.0.20080127, on Gentoo.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Paul Probert
>>>
>>   I took a look at the .sch file with a text editor, and most, but not
>> all, of the coordinates ended in 01, whereas in other diagrams of mine
>> that work they all end in 00. So I did a search and replace, and now the
>> circuit is fine. So how did they get off by one mil?
> 
> Did you change your symbols recently? Unless you embed your symbols
> the current version of the symbols will be loaded when you open your schematic.
> 
> (* jcl *)
> 
   Maybe one symbol was changed, but the problem was all over the 
schematic, not just near the one symbol.
   I wasn't aware that I could "embed" my symbols. I'll have to look 
that up.

  Thanks,
Paul Probert



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