Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Michalske
I think that pcb should look for a part with the refdes U1a first before dropping the a to match U1. it should also spit out a little blurb about what it did. that way when someone does name a part Tm and wants it to be called Tm, pcb sees that part Tm exists and that no part T exists. we c

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:40:28 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be documented > somewhere, but I'm not sure where It should be considered a bug to be fixed. I had pcb crash on me because of this. This is a major newbie trap. Either gsch2pcb shou

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be > documented somewhere, but I'm not sure where ;) It's documented in the "Netlist File" section: If a NAME ends with a lower-case letter, all lower-case letters are stripped from the end of the NAME to determine the matching layo

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:30 +0300, ine...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello, Patrick; On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to make the rate net, I get: Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:30 +0300, ine...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hello, Patrick; > > On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > When I try to make the rate net, I get: > > Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist > > There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(), > for (i = j; i > 0 && Elem

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread ineiev
Hello, Patrick; On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > When I try to make the rate net, I get: > Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(), for (i = j; i > 0 && ElementName[i - 1] >= 'a'; i--); I think this may mean something like slotting (

gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello trying to understand what is wrong is this file, I finally decided to submit you. When I try to make the rate net, I get: Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist Of course one connection is missing, but I cannot figure out why. Thank -- --- ==