gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread blueeagle2
I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for other components. For instance I have a schematic with a couple LEDs on it and a radial style electrolytic capacitor. The

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:25:25 -0700 blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for other components. For instance I have a schematic with a couple LEDs on it

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for other components. You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not much in the tools to aid

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 11:41 -0500, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: What I've found myself doing for this is to run PCB and flip through its footprint library until I find the particular footprint I want, Of course, if you have an idea of the name of the footprint (i.e. from Datasheet) one may try

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for other components. You just hit a major weakness

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: Much more difficult is to ensure that all your footprints on your PCB board really match with your devices. One has to do a printout of the PCB board and place all devices on it. Next time, when you order parts from a different company, you may get other shapes

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:05 -0500, Mark Rages wrote: gschem-pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any other software I regularly use: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg Just hang in there, it makes more sense

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread DJ Delorie
If I order resistors, size 0805, they better fit a 0805 footprint ;-) Seriously, can you give an example for parts with arbitrary footprint? SMT connectors SOIC TQFN ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: PCB X.00

2010-07-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
DJ Delorie wrote on the other list, were mere mortals like me are not allowed to post: I don't know. My conundrum at the moment is that pcb is at 1.99z so we're out of letters, why not go on with either 1.100, or 1.991, or 1.99za, or 1.99æ ... Seriously, I'd love to see some form of more

Re: gEDA-user: PCB X.00

2010-07-17 Thread Steven Michalske
On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:53 AM, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: DJ Delorie wrote on the other list, were mere mortals like me are not allowed to post: I don't know. My conundrum at the moment is that pcb is at 1.99z so we're out of letters, why not go on with either

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:29 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: Stefan Salewski wrote: If I order resistors, size 0805, they better fit a 0805 footprint ;-) Seriously, can you give an example for parts with arbitrary footprint? ---)kaimartin(--- Of course. Many ICs of my DSO board are

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread John Doty
On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Mark Rages wrote: gschem-pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any other software I regularly use: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg The curves as drawn are nonsense. Generally they cross, at

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Mark Rages wrote: gschem-pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any other software I regularly use:

Re: gEDA-user: Vias and GUI-idea

2010-07-17 Thread Armin Faltl
Thanks, same for the clear explanation on conformal coating. Bob Paddock wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Armin Faltl [1]armin.fa...@aon.at wrote: Hi, while I can clearly live without that feature, I read that blind and burried vias are not possible with PCB.

gEDA-user: Syntax error line 20 with xgsch2pcb

2010-07-17 Thread blueeagle2
When I do an update layout with xgsch2pcb I get a syntax error at line 20. This is what is at line 20.What is wrong with this other than there is nothing inside the brackets. I tried deleting it from the .pcb file and it gives the same error. Symbol(' ' 18) ( )