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Reserved attribute name: 'SHEET'

rickford66

I'm using Eagle 6.3 and in my PCB I've created a title block that contains information such as title of board, drawing number, rev level, etc.  all of these are tied to global attributes such that when I add a global attribute, it updates the title block.  The exception is the 'SHEET' field.  I have used this before a few times and it has always worked fine, but today, on a new board design, the same title block is telling me... "Reserved attribute name: 'SHEET' ".  It will not allow me to add the attribute.  If I smash the title block, all of the attribute text can be manipulated individually, except the SHEET attribute.  It just says >SHEET.  Anyone know what could be going on here?

Thanks.

  • rickford66 wrote:

     

    I'm using Eagle 6.3 and in my PCB I've created a title block that

    contains information such as title of board, drawing number, rev level,

    etc.  all of these are tied to global attributes such that when I add a

    global attribute, it updates the title block.  The exception is the

    'SHEET' field.  I have used this before a few times and it has always

    worked fine, but today, on a new board design, the same title block is

    telling me... "Reserved attribute name: 'SHEET' ".  It will not allow me

    to add the attribute.  If I smash the title block, all of the attribute

    text can be manipulated individually, except the SHEET attribute.  It

    just says >SHEET.  Anyone know what could be going on here?

     

    SHEET is a text placeholder for 'sheetNumber/sheetCount' (help text)

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    Lorenz

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Yes, I know that.  There are also a number of other place holders in the title block and those work properly.  The >SHEET place holder used to work, but suddenly now it doesn't.  I just wondered if maybe there was a property that got set somewhere that doesn't allow it to be modified.

    Thanks.

  • in reply to rickford66

    I changed my document field in my library to >SHEETNUM and it fixed the problem.  I don't know why it suddenly started having a problem with SHEET, but it's working now with SHEETNUM.

  • in reply to rickford66

    rickford66 wrote:

     

    Yes, I know that.  There are also a number of other place holders in the

    title block and those work properly.  The >SHEET place holder used to

    work, but suddenly now it doesn't.  I just wondered if maybe there was a

    property that got set somewhere that doesn't allow it to be modified.

     

    I don't know.

     

    But there have been several other more restrictive checks in the

    recent updates.

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    Lorenz

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Ok, thanks.  I'll have to be on the lookout for those.