Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-19 Thread John Luciani
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Williams st...@icarus.com wrote: I was thinking about multi-part symbols, actually. It would be kool to draw a symbol for all the business pins and another symbol for the power pins. Then I could have a sheet just for power/gnd. This is what I would

Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:36:38 -0600, John Doty wrote: Yes, this is exactly the pitfall that my patch fixed, whose acceptance you violently and successfully opposed. For good reason: it fixed this *particular* symptom, but not the general problem (the gnetlist front end filters data in ways

Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-16 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:46 -0600, John Doty wrote: Then I could have a sheet just for power/gnd. That works. You just have to be careful about attributes like footprint: gnetlist will grab the first one it sees and ignore any others. Unfortunately, it is not that easy. gnetlist delivers

Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-15 Thread John Doty
On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Stephen Williams wrote: I was thinking about multi-part symbols, actually. It would be kool to draw a symbol for all the business pins and another symbol for the power pins. Then I could have a sheet just for power/gnd. That works. You just have to be careful

gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-14 Thread Stephen Williams
I'm planing a circuit where some chips have a wide variety of different power supply requirements. I'm debating with myself whether I should create symbols that have net= attributes for all the various power types, or if I should attach attributes from outside the symbol, or create pins for all

Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:58:14 -0700, Stephen Williams wrote: I'm planing a circuit where some chips have a wide variety of different power supply requirements. I'm debating with myself whether I should create symbols that have net= attributes for all the various power types, or if I should

Re: gEDA-user: net= attributes, symbols and schematics

2009-10-14 Thread John Griessen
Stephen Williams wrote: I'm planing a circuit where some chips have a wide variety of different power supply requirements. Assuming the nice star pattern of power distribution from the source and back will assemble itself is a lost cause, so there's no need to pre label every part with a