Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 13:43 -0600, Mark Rages wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:50:33 +0200 Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote: For me, I never

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:32:26PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 13:10 -0500, John Griessen wrote: gschem is not as key binding configurable as PCB as far as I can tell. Adding that would be a fine goal. It is actually - its just not immediately obvious. Look in

Re: gEDA-user: accel keys (was: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA)

2011-09-09 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:58:14AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: But gschem and pcb have completely different toolsets and common tasks. It would be difficult to make them the same outside of the usual common key mappings (cut, paste, undo). There are a few more

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-09 Thread Dave McGuire
On 9/8/11 11:26 PM, Rob Butts wrote: So if I have an electromagnetic and I hold it next to the spinning metal disc as I increase the intensity of the magnetic field the metal disc should be harder to spin? Exactly, yes. (please forgive me for jumping in) Define conductive?

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:37 +1000, Geoff Swan wrote: So if I have an electromagnetic and I hold it next to the spinning metal disc as I increase the intensity of the magnetic field the metal disc should be harder to spin? Yes. Define conductive? The eddy current breaks says

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 09:19 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: For my money, we could kill ev and its menu item completely. I don't think it serves any useful purpose, and has caused me many a headache. Full agreement here. Goodness, I have poor memory. I went to see about this, looked at my

Re: gEDA-user: Wire-only Symbols - Netlist problems

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 11:32 +0530, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: Thank you for your inputs. Please tell us what version of gschem and gnetlist you're using. I'm using the latest stable release of gEDA (1.6.2-20110115) I compiled it from the source tarball here:

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-09 Thread Bob Paddock
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Rob Butts r.but...@gmail.com wrote:   I was just looking at that (the eddy current brake). Yes, what is   needed to build a bike with a braking action is a magnetic force   similar to pushing two magnets of the same pole towards each other. A   bike where the

Re: gEDA-user: plugins (was: How can you help...)

2011-09-09 Thread Vladimir Zhbanov
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org). Would you join the effort? How about updating the existing wiki documentation? - Gschem User Guide is outdated. - PCB Manual is outdated. - Circuit Simulation

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-09 Thread John Doty
On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: If you're after significant resistance, I would go for a copper disk, about 5mm or thicker, with strong magnets - either an electromagnet on an iron core - placed quite close (within a few millimetres) of the spinning disk, OR - some neodymium

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-09 Thread Rob Butts
Wow, this is fantastic everyone. Thanks! I knew I came to bthe right place! Rob On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, John Doty [1]j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: If you're after significant resistance, I would go for a copper disk,

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 04:14 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: My solution: A titleblock symbol that is really just that. A box, which contains the title, date, version and author, to be printed on the bottom of a page. Because these are global attributes, they can be edited wholesale with the attribute

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 04:32 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Notice there are plenty of single-key bindings there already, for example, the group at the bottom. Hope that helps, Yes, thanks. Maybe I'll create a tutorial based on a keybinding layout that works smoothly with PCB and see if it is popular.

Re: gEDA-user: accel keys

2011-09-09 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 06:58 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There are a few more that could potentially be matched: gschempcb * start drawing a net [n] start drawing a track [F2] * edit some text [ex] edit some text [n] . . .

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 07:01 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The number of people using it one way or the other would be voted for with tutorials written and promoted. ... and create quite some confusion during the process. Does not look like a good idea to me. OK, then how about we write it up in your

Re: gEDA-user: accel keys

2011-09-09 Thread John Doty
On Sep 9, 2011, at 6:01 PM, John Griessen wrote: On 09/08/2011 06:58 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There are a few more that could potentially be matched: gschempcb * start drawing a net [n] start drawing a track [F2] * edit some text [ex]

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-09 Thread Abhijit Kshirsagar
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 22:20, Dan Roganti ragoo...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say wipeout, from looking at the current state of   documentation, there's been a huge amount of work done there. I would   suggest just making some additions and editing some parts to bring some   attention to all

Re: gEDA-user: plugins (was: How can you help...)

2011-09-09 Thread Abhijit Kshirsagar
Hey, Somehow missed this thread and replied on the other one... Count me in for documentation. Please let me know what I can do. Some of the documentation I have written previously is here: gEDA-Tutorials.pdf on https://sites.google.com/site/abhijit86k/linux/geda ~Abhijit On Fri, Sep 9,