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From: "W. Ekkehard Blanz" <ekkehard DOT blanz AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] (x)gsch2pcb produces empty layout in pcb
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:26:39 -0700
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On Monday, March 19, 2012 12:04:32 AM you wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 23:40 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:36 -0700, W. Ekkehard Blanz wrote:
> > > ...just installed and used gEDA tools for the first time (NOOB!!)...
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > Can any of you gEDA gurus help, please?
> > 
> > It is indeed very unpleasant that such problems may occur to new users.
> > 
> > I have read your post twice, but was not able to really see the problem.
> 
> I forgot:
> 
> If you use pcb program to import the schematics without using gsch2pcb,
> you have to specify paths as DJ told us recently:
> 
> http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2012/02/14/13:48:44
> 
> 
> That direct import is a new feature of pcb, so you may try to use the
> latest release 20110918 available for ubuntu
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=pcb

Thanks a bunch Stefan!!  Great help!!!

You were right - my "self made footprints" were indeed the problem.  Once I 
replaced those with "canned" ones, the problem went away, and pcb displayed 
all my elements in a heap in the top left corner as I was expecting it to do.

Of course, I would have wished to see some sort of error message somewhere 
pointing me to the element(s) in error, in which case I could have solved the 
problem myself without bothering you.

Now that I got over this hump, my next step is to read up more on generating 
footprints to get my odd-ball elements taken care of and see what I got wrong 
there.

BTW - with the erroneous footprints removed, the xgsch2pcb GUI worked just fine 
too.

Thanks again

Ekkehard