Can't open most schematics created before Eagle 6.1

On 4/5/2012 12:07 PM, Michel Landry wrote:

Hi,

With most of my projects, whenever i open the schematic i get a .rpt.sch and a .sch.rpt file that pops up.

one is the intermediate XML file and the other is the error report.

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This is the error:

EAGLE update report

 

Date: 4/5/2012 12:56:20 PM

File: //xxxxxxx.sch

 

An error occurred while parsing the intermediate XML file.

The XML file has been loaded into a text editor window as

//xxxxxxx.rpt.sch

 

Warning(s):

 

line 6682: invalid value '1' for attribute 'layer' in tag<wire>

 

Error:

 

line 6682, column 98: invalid/missing attribute 'layer' in tag<wire>

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I'm basically going back to 5.11 just to open these files.  But i can't keep doing this because 5.11 will not read 6.1 files.

Is this a bug?  How can i fix this??

 

Hi Michel,

It's not a bug, there's an imperfection in your file which V5 was able

to ignore. The new XML format is a little more touchy so it's now

running into that imperfection and requesting you to correct it.

Send the files to support@cadsoftusa.com, and I'll get to work on them.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

For those interested in knowing the solution for this. This is what I got.

This is just an FYI for anyone having the same problem.

Thanks

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Hi Michel,

Here's the corrected schematic the board is just fine. All you have to do to get everything to work is strip the rpt extension from the schematic.

The issue in this design was that some drawing features which you'll find on layer 97 were on layer 1 inside the file.

Obviously layer 1 doesn't work with the schematic and that's where the issue came from.

To correct it I opened the XML file in Notepad++ and used a find and replace feature to replace the 1's in the layer fields with 97.

After that the schematic opened.

I don't think this will show up in all of your designs, in my experience when this has happened before it's only be one or two designs that have given issues. In any case I have forwarded your files to our developers for analysis, perhaps a future release of EAGLE will automatically account for such a case.

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