Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread andrew whyte
1) No 3D info given -- Guess some decent height from the silk of the footprint. I won't recommend that. Guessing is a bad idea because if it's wrong, bad things can happen: The PCB doesn't fit into the case. Can I suggest warning the designer, and letting them decide if they want to go back

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Peter and all, On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:06 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:38 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:50:37 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: IMO, this is _not_ cheating, it is a standard technique. The surface of a board is flat - so

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:33:31 +0200, Christoph Lechner wrote: 3) Full 3D model present -- Add the model to the 3D representation of the board. That's the best way -- but of course it's a lot of work to come into a position where you have all the 'standard' parts you work with all day in a

Re: gEDA-user: Flexibility and capability

2009-10-06 Thread John Doty
On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:56 AM, Chris Smith wrote: John Doty wrote: On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:29 AM, spuzzdawg wrote: This is the line of argument I really have an issue with. I mean making it easier to use by someone who doesn't want to command line everything. Does every tool have to be dumbed

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Kai-Martin, Frank, Stefan, Peter and all, On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 00:27 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:58:52 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: As an older (code no longer in existence) example, perspective like this is not hard to achieve:

gEDA-user: small bug in resistor-2.sym

2009-10-06 Thread Christian Riggenbach
Hi I just found a little bug in sym/analog/resistor-2.sym: one of the pins is not aligned to the grid and is a little bit longer. This is only visible if you zoom in very far. The patch is attached. -- mit freundlichen Grüssen Christian Riggenbach criggenb...@magahugu.net ---

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:57 +0100, andrew whyte wrote: 1) No 3D info given -- Guess some decent height from the silk of the footprint. I won't recommend that. Guessing is a bad idea because if it's wrong, bad things can happen: The PCB doesn't fit into the case. +1 Can I

Re: gEDA-user: small bug in resistor-2.sym

2009-10-06 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Christian, On Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009, Christian Riggenbach wrote: I just found a little bug in sym/analog/resistor-2.sym: one of the pins is not aligned to the grid and is a little bit longer. This is only visible if you zoom in very far. It's just a graphical bug. Even if you put it to

gEDA-user: sch2sym.py and Makefile example

2009-10-06 Thread Dan White
I have begun to use gaf for an audio prototyping board for a University course I'm teaching. The gEDA site claims no schematic-to-symbol generator so I rolled my own and am making the first-pass available to start to fill the gap. I am been using the gEDA Binary Suite 0.0.2 for the moment until

gEDA-user: Use the gnetlist, Luke

2009-10-06 Thread John Doty
Thinking about a set of scripts to better automate my path from light library symbols to heavy project symbols. One issue for user scripts like this is that they need to know where gEDA is installed. For me, that varies between machines, and sometimes I even have multiple installations on

Re: gEDA-user: sch2sym.py and Makefile example

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Dan, On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:55 -0500, Dan White wrote: I have begun to use gaf for an audio prototyping board for a University course I'm teaching. The gEDA site claims no schematic-to-symbol generator so I rolled my own and am making the first-pass available to start to fill the gap.

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:01:02 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote: AFAIK, VRML is a common file format and is human readable, that is the positive side Unfortunately, it is not a common file format among 3D mechanical CAD applications. While VRML output is great for realistic rendering with blender

Re: gEDA-user: sch2sym.py and Makefile example

2009-10-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:55:11 -0500, Dan White wrote: http://www.whiteaudio.com/proj/sch2sym.tar.gz Great. I'll give it a try. ---(kaimartin)--- (Who hopes, that some day such a script will be usablle from within the gsche GUI) -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel:

Re: gEDA-user: Use the gnetlist, Luke

2009-10-06 Thread Bas Gieltjes
It would also be nice to have a configurable place for user gnetlist scripts. Something like this? gnetlist -g where-geda-sh -p private-netlist.scm /dev/null -o output.net For you it is time to update to geda version 1.6 and revise your script. The fonts are gone... Bas --

Re: gEDA-user: Use the gnetlist, Luke

2009-10-06 Thread John Doty
On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Bas Gieltjes wrote: It would also be nice to have a configurable place for user gnetlist scripts. Something like this? gnetlist -g where-geda-sh -p private-netlist.scm /dev/null -o output.net I'm thinking that -g shouldn't just look in the installed

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Bergmann
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:12:12 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote: PCB output for a 3D-view in Blender (or AutoCAD if you live in the other universe) is somewhere on the bottom of my todo list. To keep things decoupled from the pcb perspective ... I would prefer this. ...I would suggest one (or

Re: gEDA-user: )(

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Frank, On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:50 +, Frank Bergmann wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:12:12 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote: PCB output for a 3D-view in Blender (or AutoCAD if you live in the other universe) is somewhere on the bottom of my todo list. To keep things decoupled from the

gEDA-user: gEDA 1.6: Best way to suppress build of docs and examples?

2009-10-06 Thread Stefan Salewski
For Gentoo we try to give users the freedom to suppress installation of documentation and examples. Up to 1.4.3 this was easy -- just do not install the docs and examples packages. For 1.6 we seem to have still --disable-gattrib, but currently I am not sure which is the best way to suppress docs

Re: gEDA-user: User library

2009-10-06 Thread Vincent Onelli
Hello, I have not found a good way to set up my library, that is footprint that I need to make. At the present time I made the following directory: ~/geda/project (for schematics layouts), ~/geda/pcb-elements (my creation), ~/geda/footprint (for footprints downloaded), all this work OK, but

Re: gEDA-user: User library

2009-10-06 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:18 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote: I apologies for my ignorance, I am not sure that I enter the info correctly. Here what I did: File - Preference - Library, then entered ~/geda/pcb-elements, which is my footprint directory but nothing has changed anywhere. I also

gEDA-user: gschem: wiring two pins by scripting ?

2009-10-06 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, I wish to wire two pins by loading the .sch file by an automated method, say a script. Is there a way or did someone already has a script which wires two known pins automatically ? regards, Chitlesh ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA 1.6: Best way to suppress build of docs and examples?

2009-10-06 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: For Gentoo we try to give users the freedom to suppress installation of documentation and examples. If you delete the docs, then pay attention to gschem help menu. The latter calls for the wiki. You will need to suppress that or patch