Re: gEDA-user: Errors converting from schematic to PCB...

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may want to see if there are whitespace characters or \n or \r characters
in the reference designator or footprint attributes.

(* jcl *)

On 9/21/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I attempt to use gsch2pcb on my current project, I keep getting a
> ton of rather mysterious errors:
>
> ....  lots of repeated messages removed ....
> Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
> Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
> Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
> Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
> WARNING: U? has no footprint attribute so won't be in the layout.
>
> ----------------------------------
> Done processing.  Work performed:
> 0 file elements and 7 m4 elements added to boards/1p3.new.pcb.
> 1 components had no footprint attribute and are omitted.
>
> The problem is, I cannot for the life of me figure out why it's
> complaining about some ghost component with a label of U?, because
> grep "U?" *.sch produces zero results.  It should produce at least one
> if one had actually existed.
>
> Also, I'd like to know why it cannot find refdes on any components,
> because all components in the schematics DO have a refdes on them, as
> confirmed by going into gschem and looking at all the attributes.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
>


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