Thanks for the tip. I finally punted and ran the annotation with the "reannotate everything". That got the ERC working. Now I'm chasing phantom errors. In most cases, deleting the trace or more often, the ground symbol and re-placing it will make the error go away. I've learned that if I drop a ground symbol right on the pin of a component with no connecting wire, it'll get flagged as a non-connect. Real PITA. I have a LOT of those to fix.
John Stephen Eaton wrote: > G'day John, > > > > I myself am fairly new to kicad as well, but have just finished a project as > a means to better learn kicad. > > > > With my experiences I found that ERC won't fully run until it sees all > components are annotated. > > > > Have you run the annotation tool to see if it picks up the unannoted > component? > > > > Stephen... > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of NeonJohn > Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [kicad-users] Schematic ERC > > > > > > I'm using the latest official release under Ubuntu (Build: (20100406 > SVN-R2509)-final) After abandoning KiCAD a couple of releases ago as > not ready for prime time, I'm back to try again. I've entered a fairly > complex design involving an FPGA, a processor and some analog stuff. > Being fairly new to this and considering the complexity, I can't believe > that I made no mistakes. that's what the ERC checker is saying. When I > bring it up and click "Test ERC", I get the following message: > > item not annotated: 0.1uF? > Annotation required! > > But nothing in the marker window. I've checked every single bypass > capacitor both manually and by searching for the value. They're all > annotated. > > So. Is ERC broken in this release or was I really that good? :-) And > what's with the annotation message? > > Thanks, > John > -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77
