Re: gEDA-user: pcb refdes name restrictions?

[Peter Baxendale <peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Any lower case suffix is ignored. This is so you can, for example, place
> 4 discrete NAND gates on the schematic called U1a, U1b, U1c and U1d, and
> they will netlist into a single footprint / component, U1.
> 

Ah, thanks - that explains exactly what I was seeing - CONNpower became
CONN.

> I'm not sure of any other restrictions. Spaces are probably unwise " ",
> but I've not tested that.

The students tried that - as you'd expect, spaces are a bad idea.



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