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From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:19:18 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] how to pass extra attributes from gschem to pcb
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 5:29 AM Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
>
> Hi Britton,
>
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2020, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > I know how to attach attributes in gschem and pcb (e.g. in pcb by
> > selecting element then doing :Attributes(Element)).  Is there a way to
> > set an attributes in gschem st File->Import Schematics in pcb will
> > automatically produce an element with an Attribute line (e.g.
> > Attribute("in_current_build" "no")) like what the pcb
> > :Attributes(Element) command produces?
>
> there is no explicit way to do this, but you can edit the list of exported
> attributes in the `pcbfwd' backend to include arbitrary attribute names.
>
> By default, the following attributes are exported to PCB:
>    - device
>    - manufacturer
>    - manufacturer_part_number
>    - vendor
>    - vendor_part_number

How would people feeling about adding something like misc or
user_attribute_string (or something) to the list?  It
seems wrong to stuff misc. items in these specifically names things,
and a single user-supplied string would work
for my case at least.

Britton