On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:00:10 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote:
> I am following the wonderful instructions written by Bill > Wilson, available at: > > http://web.wt.net/~billw/gsch2pcb/tutorial.html Thanks, yep gsch2pcb 1.0 is out. I just put the tutorial up last night and you found it pretty quickly! I hope it can be useful and if anyone sees any problems with it, let me know. > I am working on creating a first layout from a schematic, and am > running into problems. I created a schematic called > "TrialLayout.sch", and have used gsch2pcb version 1.0 to create the > board file. I am following the wonderful instructions written by Bill > Wilson, available at: > > http://web.wt.net/~billw/gsch2pcb/tutorial.html > > (Thank you Bill for the outstanding contribution!!!!!) > > When I run pcb on the resulting board by saying "pcb > TrialLayoutBoard.pcb", I get a pop-up box with the following error: > > ERROR parsing file 'TrialLayoutBoard.pcb' > line: 66 > description: 'parse error' I see that line 66 is PKG_unknown(unknown,A4,gmin=1e-9) and that means gsch2pcb could not find a package for A4. It seems this will happen for the spice symbols you have in the schematic since they don't translate into pc board elements. PCB doesn't know what PKG_unknown() means, so: Try a couple of things: 1) If you just run gsch2pcb again, it should move the unknowns out of TrialLayoutBoard.pcb and into TrialLayoutBoard.new.pcb and then you can try running pcb. 2) Or, just run "gsch2pcb --remove-unfound xx.sch" (or "gsch2pcb -r xx.sch") and those unknown packages should not appear. Maybe gsch2pcb should have the default of leaving out the PKG_unknown() and just spit out a warning... Bill
