Since I can't get the yahoo groups search function to work, Ill just go ahead and post this... I'm sorry if its a duplicate question.
I was working on a project 2 days ago, a simple power supply board. Everything was going ok, until I decided I would add a hierarchical sheet to my schematic. Before I did that I had added several components to the schematic one at a time and used cvpcb to add them to the board, with great success. I like to do incremental adds to keep from cluttering up the board, so this is why I do it this way... Well anyway, I added the hierarchical sheet and put a LPC2368 on it from the nxp library I downloaded, and added 2 global net labels. I also added the same 2 global labels on the main sheet (Is that the right way to do it?) I then went to re-annotate my schematic(s) and create the netlist. This all went ok as it normally had. Next I ran (or rather tried to run) cvpcb to assign the footprints to the new parts. BAM it crashed right away. I thought maybe I goofed something up adding the new sheet, so I deleted it and the global net labels an reran the netlist, and tried cvpcb again. It still did not work! I then closed everything out and rebooted (this is vista after all...) and tried again. Still nothing! I thought maybe I had corrupted something in one of my files, so I tried to create a new project and run cvpcb there. Nope still does not work! The last thing I tried was to reinstall the binary, and even that did not fix it... Has anyone else seen this happen? My machine specs are as follows: AMD Turion system 2G ram Windows Vista Home (ick I know, but this laptop came with it and Linux does not work with it yet :() kicad was 'installed' in c:/kicad-new/kicad since I used the snapshot. kicad version: 2007-11-29-RC2 Unicode version. I really wish I knew what I had done. If someone needs exact details or example files I can provide them where possible. Thanks, Mike
