Make sure that you ADD ypur module library to cvpcb AND pcbnew.
One or the other is prob missing.
Andy
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:51:33 -0000
"tmortus" <tom_mort@...> wrote:
I have a circuit board layout in eeschema and pcbnew that was just about complete. When I went to use free router as I was importing and exporting the file I got some errors that I thought were the resuld of some one pad modules that were in pcbnew that I didn't have in eeschema since they were simply for holes.
I added addes some components in eeschema to correspond with the one pad modules that were for the holes.
I have saved the hole modules in a directory I have to to hold the libraries for components and modules I have created. If I navigate to this directory I see:
I go back to eeschema and make sure that the path to the dirctory where I have my custom components and modules in included. I then run annotate, erc, build a netlist, save it and then go to CvPCB.
After I start CvPCB I select the netlist I just made, then do save netlist and footprint files and then make sure the path to my custom components are stored is present.
When I see the list of footprints in CvPCB I don't see the footprint for the hole module I just saved. In fact this last time around as I did this for this post I no longer see any of the custome modules/footprints I have made. Prior to this time I could see all but the holes I have just added. If I go to the directory where I have the custom modules, components and footprints stored I can see the .mod file for the hole module I have just stored but there isn't a .dcm footprint file stored for it. However there are both .mod and .dcm files for all the other custom modules and footprints I have made. I have checked and the path to them is listed. I have pressed automatic file association and f5 to refresh the screen and I still don't see my custom files???
Anyone have any idea what I am doing or not doing that is causing this?
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