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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops.

On 3/27/2019 8:30 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> I don't think setting m_Convert to 1 is the correct solution unless the
> part actually has a convert.  According to the Doxygen comment:

/**
  * Shape identification for alternate body styles.  Set 0 if the item
  * is common to all body styles.  This is commonly referred to as
  * DeMorgan style and this is typically how it is used in KiCad.
  */

Unless someone changed this behavior this should still be valid.

> 
> 
> On 3/23/2019 9:08 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>> For context, I've been looking at the issues in this forum
>> thread: https://forum.kicad.info/t/before-giving-up-on-kicad-one-last-attempt-erc-misery/15933/63

This post is about the timestamps not the convert value.

>>
>> I have already pushed a band-aid fix to "repair" these situations, but
>> it looks like they are being caused by the EAGLE importer (or at least
>> that is one path to this situation coming up)
>>
>> Specifically, it looks like m_convert is set to 0 in
>> SCH_COMPONENT::Init(), but this value is not valid (it should be at
>> least 1 for components).
>>
>> Are there any cases that I am missing, where it makes sense for a
>> component to have m_convert set to 0?  If not, it's an easy fix in that
>> Init() to set it to 1.  If so, we can just update the SCH_EAGLE_PLUGIN
>> to call SetConvert() wherever it creates new components.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
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