You have missed out a couple of steps. PCBnew reads a netlist and footprint file, so that is what you have to generate.
1. create your circuit in eeschema. 2. while in eeschema you need to annotate your circuit. Top toolbar 4th icon from the right. At this point I normally save the netlist just for safety 5th icon from right. 3. Now you need to assign the various modules to your components. To do this run CvPCB 12th icon from right. This will then read the netlist from the circuit and give you the options to assign all the necessary modules. While you are in cvPCB select and print out "display footprints list documentation" 3rd icon from right. It's useful to have this to hand when choosing the various size of components to use. Once you have assigned footprints to all of your components select the "save netlist and footprints" 2nd icon from left. That will generate the files that PCBnew needs. Open PCBnew and then read the netlist, that will put all your components in one small heap ready for you to move onto the board. Andy On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:49:43 -0500 "juliorz" <[email protected]> wrote: > I completed a schematic but I can not figure out how to communicate with > PCBNew so that it will have access to the schematic. > > > > The PCBNew import function is expecting a schematic with a *.SES extension. > > > > > > When I am inside Eeschema the only save option that I have is *.SCH > extension. > > > > > > I can press a button called "run PCBNew" but PCBNew will load and complaint > that it can not find my file. > > > > > > What do I do??? > > > > > > >
