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From:	Nathan McCorkle <nmz787 AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:02:11 -0500
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Subject:	Re: [geda-help] First time user having trouble with GNUduino
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Thanks Colin! I'll give some things a try and let the list know!

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:44:45 -0500
> Nathan McCorkle <nmz787 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>> bump... where else can I get help for this... I can't understand
>> why the project doesn't work out of the box
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> You're not doing anything wrong.  I get the same errors.  The
> problem with the GNUduino project.  It does not include any
> footprints.
>
> You get fewer errors if you run gsch2pcb with the output name
> GNUduino.pcb instead of test.pcb, because most elements already
> have a matching refdes on the pcb, so no action is taken.
>
> But the real problem is that the footprints are missing.  I would
> try to contact the GNUduino author, Jeffrey Antony.  Unfortunately
> he doesn't seem to have an email address listed, but maybe you can
> reach him through Twitter <http://twitter.com/jeffrey_antony>.  Ask
> him to include all footprints used in the design.  You'll know when
> all the footprints are included, because the command
> “gsch2pcb -o test GNUduino.sch” will succeed and product
> test.pcb with no errors about missing footprints.
>
> Because pcb embeds all footprints into the layout file, the
> GNUduino.pcb file included in the project is still usable, and you
> could just modify it if you needed to.  Or, you could extract the
> footprints from it manually by selecting each element, copy to
> buffer, and save buffer elements to file.  But really, each pcb
> project should always include files for all footprints and symbols
> used.
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>



-- 
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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