X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <52FCF434.30101@iastate.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:35:00 -0600 From: Roy McKay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Empty x.pcb file References: <52FCE347 DOT 8080303 AT iastate DOT edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090609030408000307040206" X-PMX-Version: 6.0.2.2308539, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2014.2.13.162115 X-ISUMailhub-test: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report=' TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, HTML_NO_HTTP 0.1, BODYTEXTH_SIZE_10000_LESS 0, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_3000_3999 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, DATE_TZ_NA 0, FROM_EDU_TLD 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BAT_BOUNDARY 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __FORWARDED_MSG 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_HTML 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __MOZILLA_MSGID 0, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0, __SXL_SIGV2_ERROR_SERVFAIL , __SXL_SIG_ERROR_SERVFAIL , __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0, __TO_IN_SUBJECT 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_NO_PATH 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS , __USER_AGENT 0' Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090609030408000307040206 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Stuart, Thanks for the pointer. It appears the transfer of a schematic symbol attribute value generated a corrupt footprint that caused all the havoc. Nasty surprise for such a subtle issue. Have a good one. RM On 2/13/2014 10:20 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote: > If you have malformed syntax or some other problem in a footprint > file, then things like this can happen. Check your footprints. > > Stuart > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Roy McKay wrote: > >> I'm using PCB version 20110918 and gschem version 1.6.2.20110115 on Fedora >> 16. I have a new board to layout and the generated pcb file from gsch2pcb is >> empty of any components. The .net & .cmd files contain the correct data. >> I've tested gsch2pcb on a previous project & it works correctly. I've >> checked the gafrc and gschem project files and find nothing unusual. Any >> clues from you experts on why gsch2pcb is failing? >> >> Thanks, RM >> >> -- Roy McKay Iowa State University mckay AT iastate DOT edu A426 Zaffarano Hall Phone: 515-294-8705 Ames, IA 50011-3160 FAX: 515-294-3747 --------------090609030408000307040206 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Stuart,

Thanks for the pointer. It appears the transfer of a schematic symbol attribute value generated a corrupt footprint that caused all the havoc. Nasty surprise for such a subtle issue.

Have a good one. RM

On 2/13/2014 10:20 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:

If you have malformed syntax or some other problem in a footprint
file, then things like this can happen. Check your footprints.

Stuart

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Roy McKay wrote:

I'm using PCB version 20110918 and gschem version 1.6.2.20110115 on Fedora 16. I have a new board to layout and the generated pcb file from gsch2pcb is empty of any components. The .net & .cmd files contain the correct data. I've tested gsch2pcb on a previous project & it works correctly. I've checked the gafrc and gschem project files and find nothing unusual. Any clues from you experts on why gsch2pcb is failing?

Thanks, RM

-- 
Roy McKay
Iowa State University  mckay AT iastate DOT edu
A426 Zaffarano Hall    Phone: 515-294-8705
Ames, IA 50011-3160    FAX: 515-294-3747

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