Another dumb question. I teach a class of undergraduates about ECAD and this year abandoned commercial tools in favour of geda. Students being students, they tend to try things I wouldn't think of doing. Today, a couple of them decided to be creative and on their schematic used names like "CONNpower" and "CONNsignal" for refdes values. Whilst I thought it unconventional and probably inadvisable, I couldn't offhand see why they shouldn't do that.
Gsch2pcb happily produced a netlist and pcb file which both looked fine, as far as I could tell. But when loaded into pcb, optimising the netlist causes error messages such as "Can't find CONN pin 4 called for in netlist". So does pcb require that all reference designators be in the form of a string followed by a numerical value? If so, are there any other refdes restrictions I should know about? Given time, they're bound to find them... Thanks, PB _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user