On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: > I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved > my work every 5 minutes. > > I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a > change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist. > > I opened myfile.pcb with PCB. My custom elements are missing. Where > did they go ? This actually happened to me yesterday as well. > > Thanks
gschem2pcb removed them because it didn't believe they were part of the net-list. Were they named correctly in PCB? If it removes correctly named elements which should be part of the netlist, and in the schematic have the correct footprint= attribute, then its probably a bug. gsch2pcb behaves the way it does this because of the case where you may change a footprint in the schematic, and you'll then need to delete and re-place it in PCB, or if you delete a component completely from the schematic. You really need to save your custom footprints in a file which gsch2pcb can find by looking at the footprint= attribute. It should then not delete these components. Before you re-create the work, take a look for the backup files gsch2pcb makes when altering your schematic. You may be able to find the elements you just lost. Regards, Peter C _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
