I created a symbol for a optical encoder component (AEDR-8300) using the tragesym tutorial: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:tragesym_tutorial
I was able to get that to work, and I also hacked my way through the creation of the corresponding footprint (following the newlib conventions) by following the guidelines presented by Stuart D. Brorson, et al. in: http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20050129.pdf When I open the .fp file in PCB, it looks correct. When I open the symbol file in gschem, it also looks correct. Now, when I create a schematic and place that component and create the circuit diagram, every thing is fine except when I run gsch2pcb on it. The problem is that the footprint doesn't show up in PCB for the component I created. There are a few other components in the schematic that came from the pre-installed symbol library, and I changed their footprint values to footprints that exist in the /usr/local/share/pcb/pcblib-newlib subdirectories, and those footprints show up fine. My questions are: 1) What is needed to associate a symbol to a footprint when you drawing the schematic in gschem? Is it a filename? If so, where does that file need to be located? Is it the Name field in the Element tag of the footprint file? 2) I put a gafrc file in my home folder with the following contents: (component-library "${HOME}/Documents/nsfwork/DataAcquisition/gaf/symbols") But it isn't run upon startup, and I cannot insert the symbols I put in the above folder. If I instead put this file in the same folder that I have the project file in, it is read upon startup, and I am able to insert the symbols. According to the gsch2pcb documentation, it should read the ~/gafrc file. Where can I put a user specific gafrc file so that it will run every time gschem is started, no matter where I am running gschem from, and what environment variables need to be set for this? Thanks, ~Luke _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
