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| + | //Translations of this guide are also available in the following languages:// [[gschem_symbol_creation.ru|Русский]] | ||
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| ====== gEDA/gaf Symbol Creation ====== | ====== gEDA/gaf Symbol Creation ====== | ||
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| ===== Overview ===== | ===== Overview ===== | ||
| - | This document describes the creation of component symbols, including style conventions, and hints/tips and things to look out for when drawing symbols for the gEDA/gaf system. | + | This document describes the manual creation of component symbols, |
| + | including style conventions, and hints/tips and things to look out | ||
| + | for when drawing symbols for the gEDA/gaf system. | ||
| + | For automatic symbol creation or conversion from other formats | ||
| + | please see the [[gschem symbol generators]] page. | ||
| ===== Component Symbol Creation ===== | ===== Component Symbol Creation ===== | ||
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| - Enter '0' into the entry field and press **OK**. | - Enter '0' into the entry field and press **OK**. | ||
| - Save the symbol using **File**->**Save** or **File**->**Save As...** | - Save the symbol using **File**->**Save** or **File**->**Save As...** | ||
| - | - Place the symbol in one of the directories specified by the ''component-library'' keyword in the system-gafrc file. Once this is done, the symbol should be visible immediately and can be selected and placed with the **Add**->**Select Component...** menu item. On Debian, placing files in /usr/share/gEDA/sym/local/ works, but require permissions setup. | + | - Place the symbol in one of the directories specified as a symbol library in a suite configuration file (one of the "gafrc" files). For an explanation of how to set up symbol libraries, see the [[geda:gschem_ug:config|gEDA gschem User Guide]]. Once this is done, the symbol should be visible immediately and can be selected and placed with the **Add**->**Select Component...** menu item. On Debian, placing files in /usr/share/gEDA/sym/local/ works, but requires permissions setup. |
| === Note === | === Note === | ||
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| ==== Attributes ==== | ==== Attributes ==== | ||
| * ''pinnumber'' attributes should be displayed as pin numbers for pins (not ''pinseq'') and should be 8 pt in size. | * ''pinnumber'' attributes should be displayed as pin numbers for pins (not ''pinseq'') and should be 8 pt in size. | ||
| - | * Attached attributes should be yellow. The color is set automatically to yellow if the text item is attached. | + | * Attached attributes should be color number 5 (attributes | yellow). The color is set automatically to yellow if the text item is attached. |
| * The only exception to this is ''pinlabel='' attributes, those should be color number 9 (text | green). If every text item within a symbol is yellow, the symbol looks too yellow. | * The only exception to this is ''pinlabel='' attributes, those should be color number 9 (text | green). If every text item within a symbol is yellow, the symbol looks too yellow. | ||
| * Attributes can be attached to some part of the symbol. Toplevel attributes (like the ''device='' or ''net='' attributes) used to be required to be attached to something to be attributes, but now they just have to exist in the symbol file as ''name=value''. | * Attributes can be attached to some part of the symbol. Toplevel attributes (like the ''device='' or ''net='' attributes) used to be required to be attached to something to be attributes, but now they just have to exist in the symbol file as ''name=value''. | ||
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| This section provides a simple example which tries to follow all of the above rules. This symbol is of a 7400 (NAND gate). | This section provides a simple example which tries to follow all of the above rules. This symbol is of a 7400 (NAND gate). | ||
| - | <code>v 20031231 1 | + | <code gschem 7400-1.sym>v 20031231 1 |
| L 300 200 300 800 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 | L 300 200 300 800 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 | ||
| T 300 0 9 8 1 0 0 0 1 | T 300 0 9 8 1 0 0 0 1 | ||
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| {{:geda:symbol_7400-1.png|:geda:symbol_7400-1.png}} | {{:geda:symbol_7400-1.png|:geda:symbol_7400-1.png}} | ||
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