Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Thanks for the detailed steps Colin. Sorry I was not clear I was looking to migrate as a user. Although I have a license for eagle but sometime get limited by the number of schematic sheets. So far I haven't reached max board size. I have moderately large customized libraries on eagle. I use git

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Hi Abhijit, I looked at your site. Your tutorial document is pretty good. Regards, Chetan Bhargava On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Abhijit Kshirsagar abhijit...@gmail.com wrote:   Recently I wrote a small script to automate some of the things needed   to be done after the gEDA tools are

Re: gEDA-user: dir = g_dir_open() should be freed by g_dir_close(dir)

2011-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: [snip] Thanks Karl. I've committed both your patches. In future, please help me get your patches integrated more quickly efficiently by following the instructions in the gEDA `HACKING' file. If for some reason you cannot use Launchpad to submit

Re: gEDA-user: SCM_ASSERT() with false SCM_ARGx

2011-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: From guile documentation: -- Macro: void SCM_ASSERT (int TEST, SCM OBJ, unsigned int POSITION, const char *SUBR) ... -- Macro: int SCM_ARG1 ... -- Macro: int SCM_ARG7 One of the above values can be used for POSITION to indicate

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:33:11 -0700 bsali...@gmail.com bsali...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed steps Colin. Sorry I was not clear I was looking to migrate as a user. Although I have a license for eagle but sometime get limited by the number of schematic sheets. So far I haven't

gEDA-user: Add author=... to sym files

2011-07-26 Thread Karl Hammar
Attached is a simple script that adds text to a sym file. It . puts the text 200 units above the device=... line. . ignores files which are symbolic links . ignores old text with the same thing before the = . does this in place, saving a backup file in file.old $ ./add_text.pl author=Karl Hammar

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
bsali...@gmail.com wrote: Couple of days back I was able to create a test schematic on gschem but it was not obvious to transfer the schematic to PCB. I guess it will take time to learn. So far I made a few observations comparing eagle: 1. Schematic board are decoupled so any changes to

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: On a large, crammed full board, where the feature is needed the most, the cross hair is almost invisible in when zoomed out. Highlighted SMD pads does not stand out on their own. They are just too small. You see the great big animated circles homing in on the part?

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:44:29 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: On a large, crammed full board, where the feature is needed the most, the cross hair is almost invisible in when zoomed out. Highlighted SMD pads does not stand out on their own.

gEDA-user: possible collaborators on PCB, gschem [Kicad (or another FOSS tool)]

2011-07-26 Thread John Griessen
He says, We do quite complex PCB design, and for us it's important to have high-performance quality tools. One option is to try to get some community effort behind Kicad (or another FOSS tool) and bring it on par with some of the non-open tools Also said, Does the router feature push shove?

Re: gEDA-user: possible collaborators on PCB, gschem [Kicad (or another FOSS tool)]

2011-07-26 Thread Larry Doolittle
John - On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:07:51PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: Larry Doolittle is going to be there in person. What can we tell them to get them interested in gEDA more than KiCAD? Not push and shove, unless someone (not me) goes wild programming between now and October. I have an

Re: gEDA-user: possible collaborators on PCB, gschem [Kicad (or another FOSS tool)]

2011-07-26 Thread John Griessen
On 07/26/2011 01:14 PM, Larry Doolittle wrote: Maybe someone (John?) would like to go over my material ahead of time? Yes, I'll read and understand it and then we could talk on the phone... John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: possible collaborators on PCB, gschem [Kicad (or another FOSS tool)]

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Paddock
[1] Notice I don't represent the whole of CERN in this, just a corridor of hackers with an attitude. Make a PCB HID that is a plug-in to ROOT, problem solved. :-) http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ I've actually thought doing of that a couple of times. Javier, would that actual be of any value?

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread John Doty
On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:33 PM, bsali...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know any functional (not monetary) advantages of gEDA over eagle, I assume that there are many. gEDA can export netlists to many tools (including Eagle), not just pcb. These include simulators like SPICE and gnucap. It

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: Another method of drawing attention to a part of the display that could be helpful is a “tunnel vision” effect: fade most of the display, leaving a small area non-faded around the feature of interest. For instance, when Ubuntu pops up a “Administrator Access Required”