X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Netnames in symbols -- am I misunderstanding? To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com References: From: Carlos Moreno Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:23:10 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 16-11-24 08:52 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > Pin labels do not define net names, No, wait --- I wasn't referring to the pin labels, but to the net; the example spreadsheet that I got from the instructions on creating one's own symbols with tragesym has column F with heading *net* (immediately on the left of the label). I put a legend in the *net* column expecting that it would define a net for that pin. From the rest of your reply, I suspect that this does not work anyway? (if that's the case, then what does that column *net* do?) > they're used to annotate pins in pcb > (or other backends). You need to attach named nets to them to do what > you want, That's what I had done for the time being (hoping that there would be some other way). However: how do you place the labels? What I did was, I drew a wire (a very short fragment), and then double-clicked on the wire and added a netname attribute, selecting the option "Visible --> Show Value Only", and the caption shows next to the wire. In your schematic, they show like an actual tag/label connected to the wire. Thanks, Carlos --