Good day. Board is manufactured and ready for placement of parts. Every time I try to create a .pos file (Fabrication Outputs to Footprint Position File), the program creates a text file with absolutely no data (a .txt and not a .pos file), 0k in size. I tried different options to no available. Help please.
What do the messages say, when you run this ?
Info: Front side (top side) place file: ‘C:\Users\Tony\Desktop\Epsilometer\Epsilometer-top.pos’.
Info: Component count: 145
Info: Back side (bottom side) place file:
‘C:\Users\Tony\Desktop\Epsilometer\Epsilomer-bottom.pos’.
Info: Component Count 90.
Info: Full component count: 235
Component Placement File generation OK.
That’s not what the messages say. My run creates no .TXT and 2 x .pos files, same as your messages.
If you open the full path
C:\Users\Tony\Desktop\Epsilometer\Epsilometer-top.pos
in a text editor, does that contain the expected 145 parts ?
It now has two .pos files but when I attempt to open them I receive a message
Windows can’t open this file:
File: Epsilometer-bottom.pos
To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it.
You are correct and thank you for your help. I was able to use a text editor to open the file and find the information I was looking for. PCB_Wiz, again thank you and have a nice day!
Hi, I created gbr and drl files, how to create .pos file ?
in pcb_new: file->fabrication output->footprint postion file
Thank You, I got it.