CAN dbc not converted to dbf

[dinesh2501]

Hello,
I converted my CAN dbc to dbf using BUSMASTER converter tool.
When I assigned this dbf to BUSMASTER,it shows no message and signal in the busmaster. Eventhough the dbf file is no blank.
please help.

[RBEI-busmaster]

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1. BusMaster Version used
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[whitefalk]

Hi,
This may be the same as #838
I had a similar issue, and I opened the DBC in CANdb++ editor, and saved it, and then it worked.

This is not the solution though. There is some kind of name abbreviation scheme in dbc that is not considered by the converter tool. There is a list of all message names but later a trunkated name appears, sometimes with the ending _0000 and _0001 etc.. Sometime the name is cut.

So CANdb++ editor resolved this, when I saved it again it resolved all these, and the full name is used now. My 800 kB dbc grew to about 900kB.

I can't currently attach an example, because it was from some proprietary project.

UPDATE:
I checked several things. So we have a tool that generates DBC files for us, and I wanted to create a dbf from it.

I thought the issue was that the signal names were sometimes more than 32 characters long.. this is not the case.

However in the beginning of the file there is a listing:

NS_:
NS_DESC_
CM_
BA_DEF_
BA_
VAL_
CAT_DEF_
etc..

the issue in my case turned out to be that our generated file had a single space in front of NS_DESC_, CM_ etc.. and CANdb++ editor would use a single \t character. This difference causes the conversion to fail.

[jogo-]

@whitefalk just have a look at the PR #1184