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[Rob Frohne <rob.frohne@...>]

Thanks Pat!

It worked, and now I have a lot of warnings to look into. If it proves 
to be as helpful as ERC, I'll find a number of things to fix.

Thanks!

Rob

Patrick wrote:
> 
>
>
>
> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:kicad-devel%40yahoogroups.com>, Rob Frohne <rob.frohne@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Pat,
> >
> > I tried kipy on my project, and it looks like it crashed. Would you
> > like a copy of my project to play with? Here is the output:
> >
> > frohro@frohro-d610:~/Araya Classes/Prop & Rad/DG8SAQ
> > VNA/DG8SAQ-KL7NA-VNA$ ~/Projects/kipy/tools/checkproj.py
> >
> >
> > Checking 1 pages
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/tools/checkproj.py", line 37, in 
> <module>
> > sch = ParseSchematic(proj)
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/__init__.py", line 105,
> > in __init__
> > pageparts, pagepartials = parsesheet(page, libdb, warnings)
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/graphics/parse.py",
> > line 142, in parsesheet
> > graphobj = InternalParse(pageinfo.sheetname, pageinfo.sheetdata,
> > pageinfo.timestamp, libdict, warnings)
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/graphics/parse.py",
> > line 131, in __init__
> > self.dispatch(pageinfo.items, self)
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/graphics/schitems.py",
> > line 53, in dispatch
> > dispatchdict[item.__class__](item, page)
> > File
> > "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/graphics/components.py", line
> > 139, in __init__
> > self.setlibinfo()
> > File
> > "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/parsesch/graphics/components.py", line
> > 121, in setlibinfo
> > boundary = list(libpart.boundary(self.subpart, self.variant))
> > File "/home/frohro/Projects/kipy/kipy/fileobjs/lib/component.py", line
> > 127, in boundary
> > self._boundaries[dictindex] = min(xlist), min(ylist), max(xlist),
> > max(ylist)
> > ValueError: min() arg is an empty sequence
> > frohro@frohro-d610:~/Araya Classes/Prop & Rad/DG8S
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Rob
>
> I would love a copy of your design for testing at some point, but I 
> believe that I have fixed the problem you encountered. You apparently 
> have a component shape (maybe a deMorgan equivalent) that has no 
> drawing items (kipy doesn't consider pins to be drawing items, just 
> rects, polylines, circles, arcs), so when kipy went to calculate a 
> bounding rectangle for the part, it came up empty-handed. My hack to 
> fix this was to seed the bounding rectangle coordinate list with (0,0) 
> which will only cause the final rectangle to get bigger if someone 
> designs their part well away from the origin. Please svn up and let me 
> know how it works for you.
>
> Regards,
> Pat
>
>

-- 
Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E.
E.F. Cross School of Engineering
Walla Walla University
100 SW 4th Street
College Place, WA 99324
(509) 527-2075	http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne

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