You may want to see if there are whitespace characters or \n or \r characters in the reference designator or footprint attributes.
(* jcl *) On 9/21/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I attempt to use gsch2pcb on my current project, I keep getting a > ton of rather mysterious errors: > > .... lots of repeated messages removed .... > Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes! > Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes! > Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes! > Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes! > WARNING: U? has no footprint attribute so won't be in the layout. > > ---------------------------------- > Done processing. Work performed: > 0 file elements and 7 m4 elements added to boards/1p3.new.pcb. > 1 components had no footprint attribute and are omitted. > > The problem is, I cannot for the life of me figure out why it's > complaining about some ghost component with a label of U?, because > grep "U?" *.sch produces zero results. It should produce at least one > if one had actually existed. > > Also, I'd like to know why it cannot find refdes on any components, > because all components in the schematics DO have a refdes on them, as > confirmed by going into gschem and looking at all the attributes. > > Ideas? > > -- > Samuel A. Falvo II > -- www.luciani.org
