Tony Radice wrote: - please send me a direct ping at trad...@ieee.org > and I'll respond, rather than waste bandwidth here.
This is fine for on the list. It helps to trim old stuff from posts though... > > Long and short: > 1) I GET the prefix, no matter the settings or if the rc file is local, > in my ~home, or in the /usr/local/gEDA directory. Do you have source=A1.sch on symbols still? That seems to trigger name prefixes to me... Or tell us more how to duplicate your test... with a small or openly sharable set of test circuit schematics... > > 2) If I remove the reference designators from the level 1 blocks the > designators go away, but so does a whole lotta my netlist as well, > making the design useless. yeah, that's not the way. > > 3) When removing the Level 1 designators and a deliberate duplicate > RefDes is placed in (two independent Level 2 sheets) the gnetlist -g > drc2 command does NOT see the duplicate RefDes. No. gschem/gnetlist see that as a composite part having lots of pins, like a FPGA bank symbol. Does drc2 complain about dup. pins? John -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user