Re: gEDA-user: More questions about PCB footprints

[John Luciani <jcljr58@yahoo.com>]

You can pass directory names to gsch2pcb on the 
command line. I created a script called sch2pcb that
contains the following:

#!/bin/bash
gsch2pcb --m4-pcbdir /local/lan/pcb/packages.m4\
--elements-dir /local/lan/pcb/packages $@

I place all of the my packages in the directory
/local/lan/pcb/packages. If you want to organize
packages with subdirectories for resistors, caps, etc
you could create a directory called packages-all
that symlinks to the various files in the
subdirectories.

(* jcl *)





--- Stuart Brorson <sdb@cloud9.net> wrote:

> Hi again --
> 
> Thanks for all the support I received about PCB
> footprints!  One of
> the benefits of F/OSS is the good support one gets
> from the actual
> developers (instead of customer-service flacks
> reading their lines off
> of printed cards).
> 
> Now I have another issue:  On my system, I place
> gEDA & associated EDA
> stuff under /usr/local/geda.  This means that the
> footprint lib lives
> under /usr/local/geda/share/pcb.  
> 
> I am using Bill Wilson's wonderful gsch2pcb, and
> have a project file
> pointing where the various files live.  Here's my
> project file: 
> 
> --------------------  project file
> ------------------------
> schematics InorBoard.sch
>  
> m4-pcbdir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/m4
> elements-dir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/newlib
> elements-dir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements
> elements-dir
> /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/resistors
> elements-dir
> /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/capacitors
>  
> output-name InorBoard
> --------------------  end project file
> ----------------------
> 
> When I run gsch2pcb, the program can find the
> footprints living in
> pcb-elements, but it can't find the m4 footprints. 
> The output spew
> from gsch2pcb is below.
> 
> Questions:  
> 
> *  What other variables do I need to set in order to
> point
> gsch2pcb to my non-standard m4 location?  
> 
> *  I have seen some mention (via Google) about a
> pcb.inc file.  I
> don't have one of these.  What does pcb.inc do?  Do
> I need to set one
> up? 
> 
> *  Am I using the wrong footprint name for the DB-9
> and DB-25
> connectors?  Otherwise, any ideas why I can't find
> the footprints for
> these parts?
> 
> Thanks for your answers,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------  gsch2pcb spew 
> --------------------------
> [sdb@localhost ~/InorBoard]$ gsch2pcb --verbose
> project
> Reading project file: project
>     schematics InorBoard.sch
>     m4-pcbdir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/m4
>     elements-dir /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/newlib
>     elements-dir
> /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements
>     elements-dir
> /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/resistors
>     elements-dir
> /usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/capacitors
>     output-name InorBoard
> Running command:
>         gnetlist -g PCB -o InorBoard.net
> InorBoard.sch
> --------
> gEDA/gnetlist version 20040710
> gEDA/gnetlist comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see
> COPYING for more
> details.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to
> redistribute it under
> certain
> conditions; please see the COPYING file for more
> details.
>  
> Loading schematic [InorBoard.sch]
> Default m4-pcbdir: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/pcb/m4
> --------
> gnet-gsch2pcb-tmp.scm override file:
>     (define m4-pcbdir
> "/usr/local/geda/share/pcb/m4")
> --------
> Running command:
>         gnetlist -g gsch2pcb -o InorBoard.new.pcb -m
> gnet-gsch2pcb-tmp.scm InorBoard.sch
> --------
> gEDA/gnetlist version 20040710
> gEDA/gnetlist comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see
> COPYING for more
> details.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to
> redistribute it under
> certain
> conditions; please see the COPYING file for more
> details.
>  
> Loading schematic [InorBoard.sch]
> --------
> C1: need new file element for footprint  CA300
> (value=22uF)
>         Found:
>
/usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/capacitors/CA300
> C1: added new file element for footprint CA300
> (value=22uF)
> ----
> R1: need new file element for footprint  R0w4
> (value=150,_0.25%)
>         Found:
>
/usr/local/geda/share/pcb/pcb-elements/resistors/R0w4
> R1: added new file element for footprint R0w4
> (value=150,_0.25%)
> ----
> J4: need new file element for footprint  SUBD_9F
> (value=unknown)
> J4: can't find PCB element for footprint SUBD_9F
> (value=unknown)
> ----
> WARNING: J3 has no footprint attribute so won't be
> in the layout.
> J5: need new file element for footprint  SUBD_25M
> (value=unknown)
> J5: can't find PCB element for footprint SUBD_25M
> (value=unknown)
> ----
> WARNING: J2 has no footprint attribute so won't be
> in the layout.
> WARNING: J1 has no footprint attribute so won't be
> in the layout.
>  
> InorBoard.pcb is backed up as InorBoard.pcb.bak.
> 2 file elements and 0 m4 elements added to
> InorBoard.new.pcb.
> 2 not found elements added to InorBoard.new.pcb.
> 3 components had no footprint attribute and are
> omitted.
> -----------------  end gsch2pcb spew 
> -------------------
> 
> 



		
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