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I might be missing something substantial here, but why not just make 
initial schematic ( empty and with one element) and compare them, both 
visually as with "diff".

This will immediatelly show you how to embed element into empty schematic.

I bet it can be done effectively even in bash, let alone Python etc.






On 3. 12. 20 20:12, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Another small thing I'd like to automate is my setup for validating
> footprints of symbols.  I use heavy symbols with footprints associated
> with each part.  To check a symbol I first create a .sym and .fpt,
> then create a file checkfpt.sch which contains just the .sym, then use
> gsh2pcb to create a pcb file containing the symbol, and launch pcb to
> take a look at it.
> 
> The part that's pointlessly interactive is the creation of the .sch
> file.  I have to have gschem launched and manually add the symbol.
> 
> I'd like to do one of these instead:
> 
> * create an sch containing just the sch using some batch mode op
> 
> * just create the sch by script.  but I don't get why some text
> elements (refdes=, device=) end up
>    repeated in the .sch file and other stay in the element.  what
> distinguishes these elements?
> 
> * create the pcb file directly.  sort of a hassle but probably what
> I'll do unless there's a better way,
>    a little weird in my case since I have a lot of footprints using a
> text library of my own
> 
> * view the footprint file in a way that shows the refdes.  I know it
> possible to view footprints directly
>    with pcb, the only problem with this is it doesn't show the refdes.
> Is there some way to make it
>    do so?
> 
> Britton
> 


	

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