Re: gEDA: gschem2pcb question

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

Chris,


[snip]
>If I add an attribute "footprint=SMD 8" to a component on the
>schematics, gschem2pcb complains that "Error: the footprint SMD for the
>device U2 does not exist".


	You are going to have to provide a simplified schematic 
(which fails with gschem2pcb), since I did this and could not 
replicate the problem:

1) Create a schematic call blah.sch:

v 20010722
C 58800 59600 1 0 0 7400-1.sym
{
T 59100 60500 5 10 1 1 0 0
uref=U1
T 59100 60800 5 10 1 0 0 0
footprint=SMD 8
}

2) Ran: gnetlist -i blah.sch

3) at the gnetlist> prompt ran:

(gnetlist:get-package-attribute "U1" "footprint")

And that returned "SMD 8"

So, looks like my code is working right, time to examine gschem2pcb
and the backend in a bit more detail, a sample schematic which mostly
works will be of great help here.  Also, you may want to try the above
experiment with your schematic first.

								-Ales

[ interactive gnetlist is quite handy. :) ]