Re: gEDA-user: newbie help: gschem to pcb

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

The values of your component attributes seem to have a newline character at
the end. If you remove these characters the "?" mark characters will disappear.

Right-click on a component and edit the attribute value to remove the newline.

You should also check your footprint attribute values.
For example CONN1 footprint attribute value has whitespace in the name.
Is this correct?

You may want to start with a very simple schematic two or three parts and 
run though the process of generating the PCB. After that works add more
parts or copy portions of your existing design into the simple design.

(* jcl *)


On 9/14/05, Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a schematic, but I cannot create a pcb layout from it; the layout
> appears to be blank and the netlist has strange undefined components in
> it. - "U? ?"
> 
> I have added refdes attributes for all power symbols in an attempt to
> clear the error messages from gnetlist. If I take them all off I get a
> PCB file with only C8 in it, but three added errors "Could not find
> redes on component and could not find any special attributes!"
> 
> I have gnetlist and gschem 20050820, and pcb 20050609
> 
> What am I doing wrong? TIA.
> 
> enc: pcb.sch, pcb.pcb, pcb.netl, pcb.netl.stdout, pcb.netl.stderr
> --
> Richard Urwin
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