On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:20:53 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
We had a meeting at CERN on Friday and decided we would start
contributing to the Kicad project in view of taking it to a level of
quality and features suitable for our PCB design activities.
It was to be
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:04:03 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
there are any bugs
This is with GTK GUI and yesterday's HEAD.
1. Set the copper diameter of vias for the current style
2. Go into the via tool.
3. Try place a via. The drill diameter will be the copper diameter. The copper
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:04:03 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
When you do save buffer elements to file and you point the chooser to an
existing file, pcb exits with this message:
**
Gtk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c:8125:get_display_name_from_file_list:
Each time I save my layout, a message appears: layout changed. Do you
want to load it? or something like that.
Brr well of couse it changed! I saved it! :-) Ok, I know it is a good
feature...
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:04:03 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
At this time, I'd like to ask folks to try the git head PCB and see if
there are any bugs that must be fixed for this release, and/or work on
Orthogonal moves doesn't work and sometimes some menu items in the GTK hid
You might want to consider import/export capability for the most widely
used commercial product (not sure what that is at the moment).
You may want to consider the following as well:
1) An updated tutorial that is accurate (IIRC, last edit is 2007, a bit
long in the tooth, not to
DJ Delorie wrote:
Also, please try the windows installer nightly builds:
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/
This afternoon I talked one of the PhD students into trying the nightly
build on her WinXP dexktop. The pcb binary loaded fine and looked good
with the new layer selection box and
you all never worried about cern before? why start now? better to just
keep focused on your current customers then unknown future additional
users.
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On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:42 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote:
Each time I save my layout, a message appears: layout changed. Do you
want to load it? or something like that.
Brr well of couse it changed! I saved it! :-) Ok, I know it is a good
feature...
Yes - it turns out that my code
Hello John,
I am really happy (and a bit of surprised) that critical postings are
still allowed for this list.
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:07 -0400, John Hudak wrote:
You might want to consider import/export capability for the most widely
used commercial product (not sure what that is at the
Steve Meier wrote:
you all never worried about cern before? why start now? better to just
keep focused on your current customers then unknown future additional
users.
For what its worth: Yes, I am worried about geda not being the preferred EDA
tool in a scientific environment, becausethis is
John Hudak wrote:
Anyway, I switched to using KiCAD and it was like going from driving a FIAT
stick to driving a 911 stick...
Please elaborate on this one.
What exactly constituted the difference that made you feel like that?
You already told us about the library/M4 thing. But there was
John Hudak wrote:
Anyway, I switched to using KiCAD and it was like going from driving a FIAT
stick to driving a 911 stick.
Just a head-up note: When I tried kicad a few months back, I felt the exact
opposite. I just did not seem to get anywhere with a little test project. Of
course this is
Orthogonal moves doesn't work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/699202
I worked on this for a while last week, it's *really* hard to get this
right as a separate flag because of the way the tools are
implemented. There's no easy way to tell when to reset the origin, or
when to apply
you all never worried about cern before? why start now?
It's not CERN itself that's the issue, it's that a big organization
wanted to help a project, and it wasn't us. The more developers Kicad
gets, the more users they'll get, which brings in more developers,
etc. If we lose developers, we
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:01 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
CERN is a missed opportunity. No reason to deny it, no reason to give up,
either. But maybe an occasion to think about the reasons.
I had wondered if part of the reasoning might be that KiCad feels a lot
more local to them. (KiCad
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM, DJ Delorie [1]d...@delorie.com wrote:
you all never worried about cern before? why start now?
It's not CERN itself that's the issue, it's that a big organization
wanted to help a project, and it wasn't us. The more developers
Kicad
Um, with all due respectI don't consider myself 'simple
minded'I am a professional EE, been working in this industry for a
28+ years, and have a few technical advanced degrees.I have both worked
in and managed groups of EEs doing state of the art EE research and
design. So,
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:59:39 +0200
Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
IMHO, this works against user expectation. After all, the whole
point of the
On 09/07/2011 09:48 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
I had wondered if part of the reasoning might be that KiCad feels a lot
more local to them. (KiCad being a French originated project - CERN
being on the French / Swiss border.)
That is one thing. Also they stated their wants as integrated printed
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:44 PM, John Doty [1]j...@noqsi.com wrote:
On Sep 4, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
Hello,
I have a strange usability behavior with gschem 1.6.2.20110115 (the
version
that comes with ubuntu-11.04). I have attached a small schematic to
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John Griessen [1]j...@ecosensory.com
wrote:
I can see a core set of plugins shipping with the source, but not
all.
I don't see it as a big deal though, since if a feature is really
core
it will be in the core, so not shipping plugins
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:54:27 +0100
Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:42 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote:
Each time I save my layout, a message appears: layout changed. Do you
want to load it? or something like that.
Brr well of couse it changed! I saved
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:12:03 +0200
Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
I have recently started to like the gschem Magnetic Net mode, now that
I learned to use Ctrl-click to put explicit intermediate points in the
lines
John Griessen wrote:
I bet gEDA seems too complicated.
I bet not :-)
CERN software engeneers don't fear complexity -- not under the hood, nor
on the interface. They strive for elegance and excellent results instead.
See the structure and the UI of paw, or root.
The main thing was
Josef Wolf wrote:
With this work flow, you'd have as much (or even more) mouse clicks
as without the tool. So what's the point of using the tool if you
have _more_ work with it than without it?
I don't seem to have have more work than without it.
Benefits:
You can zoom way out and still be
Dan Roganti wrote:
I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
documentation work.
I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org).
Would you join the effort?
---)kaimartin(---
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On Sep 7 2011, Colin D Bennett wrote:
(Actually, I would prefer to stop auto-scroll forever, because it
always scrolls when I don't intend it to, and it doesn't work right
when I _do_ want it to scroll... I wonder if it can be disabled by
setting auto-pan-speed in pcb preferences file to 0...
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:56 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:54:27 +0100
I've fixed it now by copying the gedit solution of checking file mtimes
on mouse in to the main window. (Should cover most use-cases of the user
switching between applications editing the same file).
I
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 22:47 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:56 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
How about this for a solution:
1. When saving to disk, don't disconnect/reconnect the file watch,
just leave it connected. However, ignore any file modification
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Dan Roganti wrote:
I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
documentation work.
I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org).
Would you join the effort?
I'd be happy to
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
[1]k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Dan Roganti wrote:
I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
documentation work.
I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook
([2]http://en.wikibooks.org).
Would you
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