X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Authenticated-IP: 207.224.51.38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [geda-user] duplicate refdes values From: John Doty In-Reply-To: <20111108192007.GF6940@yumi> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:58:09 -0700 Message-Id: References: <20111108100616 DOT GA32119 AT yumi> <89AF1CB2-6703-4ABC-A43D-7EA37559426F AT noqsi DOT com> <20111108180039 DOT GA6472 AT yumi> <201111081833 DOT pA8IXpek012142 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20111108190803 DOT GE6940 AT yumi> <201111081915 DOT pA8JFD0X013781 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20111108192007 DOT GF6940 AT yumi> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id pA8LwECY024452 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote: > Hi! >>> So you have three syms for one component and one footprint. Do the pins >>> of the syms overlap or not? >> >> Usually the pins do not overlap. I have a few where they do, but I >> use a perl script to doctor up the netlist when this happens (gnetlist >> doesn't handle overlapping *pins* very well). > > Okay, so warning on duplicate refres with overlaping pins? I have a plugin for gnetlist that detects conflicts between the attributes attached to the symbols associated with a component. I think this will catch most cases of unintentional reuse of a refdes. See censor-fix.scm at http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_doty/ Maybe a pcb expert can give you instructions on using a gnetlist plugin in a pcb flow. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com