gEDA-user: Recap of remaining metric-conversion work

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew Poelstra
Hey all, On a recent bug report, Peter C. asked for a summary of the remaining work needed for the metric conversion. Here you go: It has been a busy week for me so no progress in the last eight days or so. Even so, it's been a long time since my last update... On my personal branch I have

Re: gEDA-user: Recap of remaining metric-conversion work

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 19:38 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Hey all, On a recent bug report, Peter C. asked for a summary of the remaining work needed for the metric conversion. Here you go: It has been a busy week for me so no progress in the last eight days or so. Even so, it's been a

Re: gEDA-user: Non-Rectangular PCB Shape, Negative Etch, 3-Spoke Thermals; Swapping

2011-07-23 Thread DJ Delorie
1. What can I do if the intended PCB shape is not rectangular, e.g. if it is circular? One of the layers should be named outline (if not, rename one of them to that). Draw your outline there, using lines and/or arcs. 2. On the same layer, I want two different grounds which come together

gEDA-user: New line-snapping feature for PCB - please try it!

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi guys, Having been dogfooding with PCB a bit recently, I decided to look at adding a feature for snapping to off-grid points along the body of a track. I've just committed a patch which implements that in crosshair.c. It should make it a lot less painful to keep neat layout when you have parts

gEDA-user: New line-snapping feature for PCB - please try it!

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi guys, Having been dogfooding with PCB a bit recently, I decided to look at adding a feature for snapping to off-grid points along the body of a track. I've just committed a patch which implements that in crosshair.c. It should make it a lot less painful to keep neat layout when you have parts

Re: gEDA-user: Recap of remaining metric-conversion work

2011-07-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: If you could describe a perfect circle with B-Splines, I would be up for killing the arc primitive and replacing it with something a little more robust (unique) in how it may be defined. You might go for rational B-splines.

Re: gEDA-user: New line-snapping feature for PCB - please try it!

2011-07-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: adding a feature for snapping to off-grid points along the body of a track. Sounds good, but I don't quite understand the details. Where exactly are these points? ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de

Re: gEDA-user: New line-snapping feature for PCB - please try it!

2011-07-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: Having been dogfooding with PCB a bit recently, I decided to look at adding a feature for snapping to off-grid points along the body of a track. There are some properties of cross hair snapping that hurt me with my current for layer layout: 1) The cross hair snaps to

Re: gEDA-user: Non-Rectangular PCB Shape, Negative Etch, 3-Spoke Thermals; Swapping

2011-07-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Gus Fantanas wrote: 2. On the same layer, I want two different grounds which come together within a small area (a very common occurrence when laying out an ADC or DAC). I can draw two patches and then connect them with a trace. If you want to separate the two grounds on schematic level too,

Re: gEDA-user: Recap of remaining metric-conversion work

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:47:23PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 19:38 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Anyway, here are the commits I have made but not pushed: 1. Introduce Coord and Angle units, set a bunch of BDimension, LocationType and int variables in