On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Bill Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:00:10 -0400 (EDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote: > > > 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. >
If you have schematic elements which should not go on the board, you can add the graphical attribute (like on a sheet border) > Maybe gsch2pcb should have the default of leaving out the > PKG_unknown() and just spit out a warning... > My vote would be to exit with lots of warnings along with a note that says you can use --remove-unfound. Make people reach for the rope... -Dan --
