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On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:46 PM, keitho AT strucktower DOT com wrote:

> Hi all-
> 
> When using gschem to create a schematic, I can't tell what name the system
> has given to each (or any) of the nets. I can purposely name them if I
> want to, but I haven't found a way to view the names given automatically
> by the system.
> 
> For instance, I don't know which is node "1" or node "2" or node "4", etc.
> I see that global ground is always node 0.
> 
> Is there a simple way to view a net/node name? Quickly being able to
> identify the nodes will help me when plotting using ngspice. Inspecting
> the netlist itself for this info gets complicated (and prone to error) if
> the circuit is more than trivial.
> 
> I would have thought the attribute editor would show this, but it does not
> seem to AFAIK.
> 
> Let me know if this is the wrong type of question for this forum.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith Ostertag
> 
> 
> 

Welcome!

In gEDA, anonymous nets do not obtain names until you create a netlist. In most cases they get names like "unnamed_net16", but you seem to be using one of the SPICE back ends. Since different downstream tools have different net naming conventions, the netlist back end will decide what to do. In some cases, it may even rename nets you have explicitly named. Of course, gschem knows nothing of this downstream processing.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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