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ID:3674
From:Jesse Frey <je...@gmail.com>
Date:Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:57:35 -0700
Subject:Re: [pcb-rnd] Connections in Netlist but don't appear in PCB-rnd
in-reply-to:3673 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
Ok, got my library paths fixed and parts go in and are connected.
Thanks Igor2 for the help.
I attempted to take Gabriel's suggestion  but parts did not seem to
keep their rotation upon import. This was not a huge deal cause they
only had a few connections and redoing it was not ah huge pain.
Jesse
 
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:36 PM <gedau@igor2.repo.hu> wrote:
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, Jesse Frey wrote:
>
> >Hi Igor2,
> >I am now realizing that my library paths do not seem to be correctly
> >setup which means I can't place my parts. When I was originally using
> >gsch2pcb I put the directories in my project file. I added the
> >following to ~/pcb-rnd/.pcb-conf.lht (as described here
> >http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=lib_path_conf):
> >ha:overwrite {
> >    ha:rc {
> >        li:library_search_paths {
> >            /home/jesse/Documents/Projects/Altos-pcb-lib/
> >            /home/jesse/Documents/Projects/PCB-footprints/
> >        }
> >    }
> >}
> >When I start pcb-rnd this does not seem to have an effect on the
> >library contents. When I look back at ~/pcb-rnd/.pcb-conf.lht it has
> >been modified and my changes are gone. where should I be configuring
> >the library paths at? what am I doing wrong?
>
> ~/.pcb-rnd/pcb-conf.lht is the right place for user configuration. Note:
> there's is no dot prefix in the file name but in the directory name.
>
> Before you modify that file, make sure you don't have running pcb-rnd
> processes, just in case they are going to overwrite the file.
>
> Also, your example above misses the root node, so it is not a valid
> config. So your file should look more like this:
>
> li:pcb-rnd-conf-v1 {
>   ha:rc {
>    li:library_search_paths {
>     ha:overwrite {
>      /home/jesse/Documents/Projects/Altos-pcb-lib/
>      /home/jesse/Documents/Projects/PCB-footprints/
>     }
>    }
>  }
> }
>
>
> But you could also use the GUI to configure the library paths: {i c p} has
> a Library tab for this.
>
> HTH,
>
> Igor2
>
>
>
 

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