On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:23:50 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
DJ Delorie wrote:
Try this snapshot:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/geda-windows/snapshots/pcb-20110916.exe
I tried in a virtual box with winXP. Now, I better understand
Bobs problem. On the first call
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:25:19 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
See the attached screenshots
how this theme renders mouse-over of route styles.
Sigh. When will I ever learn to attach right with the original
post... Here come the announced
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:12:26 +0100
BAXENDALE P.R. peter.baxend...@durham.ac.uk wrote:
I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it,
rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to make it easy
to install on a Windows PC. It's really intended for my students to use,
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:42:12 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and
combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to
make it easy to install on a Windows PC.
Don't forget that you need to distribute the
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:44:21 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
That's great! How coincidental that I just opened up my mail
client to post to the list about how I could not find a Windows
build of gEDA!
I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts, but
unless
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:43:46 -0600
John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote:
On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote:
How much Unix tools does gEDA really need
to run? Just the Scheme interpreter?
Optional tools need a variety of support, e.g. Perl for refdes_renum, Python
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:24:57 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
Geoff Swan wrote:
+1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted.
It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate
a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:36:25 +0100
BAXENDALE P.R. peter.baxend...@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Don't forget that you need to distribute the geda and cygwin
sources with your binaries. Yes, it's a pain, but yes, you
have to do it.
The gEDA sources are in the zip, but I forgot about the cygwin
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:16:23 +0200
Rubén Gómez Antolí l...@mucharuina.com wrote:
Is something how Kde us Gnome?
Because after of years of desktop wars, both proyects colaborate in base
(freedesktop) and expand his own style.
There are something to learn in our own free software history?
I've been trying to use the pcb track optimization tools on a board
which I've manually routed. I tried essentially all the
options on the Connects | Optimize routed tracks menu. However,
I've run into a couple of problems:
1. My board has an LQFP48 footprint rotated 45 degrees.
Whenever I
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:04:35 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:38:20PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
1. My board has an LQFP48 footprint rotated 45 degrees.
The ability to rotate parts happened after the optimizer work. Any
math majors want to take
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:50:33 +0200
Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote:
For me, I never loved the many tool changes, and I was never able to
remember all the key combinations. er is edit rotate, ve is view
extend. For the later I am not really sure -- have not used gschem for a
year.
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
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 circle is to signal the user where the connection
would be done.
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:55:10 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the
route style selector? It would look like so:
http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png
This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think.
While
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:46:02 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:02:51AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Andrew Poelstra wrote:
Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the
route style selector? It would look like so:
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:18:20 -0500
John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote:
Does the category low end bother you?
Well, I think low-end is not very specific in reality. Does gEDA
really belong in the category of EAGLE, or is it much more powerful?
Maybe the “low-end” attitude toward gEDA is
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:22:28 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 06:51:10PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Some glitches:
I don't see any visual feedback which item the mouse cursor
currently refers to. Gnome user expectation seems to be, that the
item
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:36:21 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
I don't think it makes sense for a popup to be tear-off-able, since
popups are supposed to be context sensitive, and if you tear it off
you lose context.
I.e. if you right-click on an element, you should get a menu
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:03:05 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
Are you running an old version of GTK?
My distro is debian/testing, aka squeeze. The libgtk2 packages are
mostly version 2.24.4-3 . Is this old?
No, not old. I have the same 2.24.4
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:30:02 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote:
Actually, with respect to the rubber-band mode (both in PCB and
gschem, as a matter of fact) I have no clue whether the mode is
'on' or 'off'. I can only test the behaviour by doing
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:38:27 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Right now in pcb if you shift-right-click on the main viewport,
you get a popup menu with a few submenus. There are no tearoffs.
Do you want tearoffs on the submenus of this popup?
What about on the popup itself?
Am I
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:34:04 +0200
Kovacs Levente leventel...@gmail.com wrote:
When you use a light symbol, a script finds a pinmap, and constructs
a heavy symbol. Say for example if you have a SOT23 diode with A1A2K
pinout you'll get a symbol with name like 'diode-SOT23-A1A2K.sym'
this
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:23:09 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
This of course implies heavy symbols. In fact, I made them super
heavy by adding an attribute with a comma separated list of
footprints. So dear light library lovers: This is explicitly not for
you ;-)
First,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:33:05 -0400 (EDT)
Cory Papenfuss papenf...@juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've played with it a bit
and come up with an example for a 200mil radial capacitor below:
Element[ C0 97000 208000 8000 -28000 0 100 ]
(
Pin[0 0 0
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:28:46 -0400
Ethan Swint eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote:
On 08/24/2011 01:15 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote:
I understand that it is electrical convention to name diode terminal
anode and cathode, but I reject it as a confusing and ambiguous
naming convention.
Yes, it's
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:41:28 +0200
Levente Kovacs leventel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:03:35 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
Why not?
Pinnumbers are numbers in the first place. Former versions of
netlisters/PCB got confused by non-digital
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:14:23 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:14:43AM -0500, kqt4a...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a component with a pin that info shows copper width = 72
I want to set copper width to 70 so I go to
File-Preferneces-Increments and set Size
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:21:17 -0400
Ethan Swint eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote:
On 08/23/2011 08:47 PM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
I was double checking a pcb layout today and I discovered a rather
nasty gotcha. It seems that gschem and PCB don't agree on which end
of a diode should be pin 1.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:53:23 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Cory Papenfuss wrote:
I thought about that... making different footprints that don't
have copper on the component side of the pins. Since that would
require making new footprints for pretty much everything,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:42:26 +0100
Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
For converting legacy designs, an import from gerber might be more
generally useful to our user base, and doesn't require decyphering
unknown file formats. Admittedly this looses footprint information,
but perhaps that
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:36:33 +1000
Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote:
A few hours in the future, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:52:19AM +1000, Stephen Ecob wrote:
A few hours in the future, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
* Hide all
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:58:27 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
if you use pcb with the Lesstif GUI, why?
The lesstif GUI was designed to use very little screen space, leaving
the maximum amount of space for the board.
I just tried out the lesstif pcb GUI. I was surprised to see
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:41:53 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:22:25AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Andrew Poelstra wrote:
I have implemented the italicized/separated
suggestion. You can see it here:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
Cory Papenfuss papenf...@juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
Hey, all. I've used PCB on an off for 10 years and recently
have been getting familiar again with the rest of gEDA which has
become a great set of tools!
Anyway, I've been using a board
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:29:50 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
That would play nice on a dual headed setup.
One of my dream projects is to do a GUI for pcb that uses two or
more monitors, with one monitor heavy on the toolbars and showing an
overview thumber window, and the other
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:33:36 -0500 (CDT)
kqt4a...@comcast.net wrote:
I am using version 1.99z that I compiled a few days ago
If I press control-r while the mouse is over a component name I get a
segmentation fault
I have seen this recently too. I can't reproduce it exactly right now,
but I
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:09:03 -0400
Ethan Swint eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote:
On 08/20/2011 11:50 AM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
Is there a way to prevent a device from appearing in the BOM and in
the XYRS file? The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have a pin
defined in my schematic for
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:07:45 +0800
Atommann atomm...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/8/20 Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:55:31 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
Pros/cons? and please, no philosphy about integrated vs
independent tools...I am interested
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:51:03 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
Which GUI ?
That makes me wonder:
who uses the Lesstif HID GUI instead of the GTK HID GUI? I've only
used the GTK GUI because I don't know why one might choose Lesstif.
Any Motif/Lesstif applications I've used in the past
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:09:37 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:46:24PM -0700, Steven Michalske wrote:
On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:41:58PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
[...]
Though, I am still
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:05:30 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
So, this causes me to ask the question: Why hasen't gattrib been
removed from:http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gaf as well as any
other instances?
While the concept is good, the implementation is worthless, and
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:12:57 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
I really dislike the double-click idea. I often need to quickly
enable/disable visibility of multiple layers,
Nothing beats accel-keys for fast actions. In this case [ctrl-N
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:22:11 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Andrew Poelstra wrote:
I like KMK's
click/double-click idea if possible.
Very possible. But you would still be unable to toggle visibility
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:44:12 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
d) While menues can be ripped off and used as a toolbox, they
don't remember their state beyond the end of the session. This
essentially prevents persistent user configuration of the GUI.
Actually, the GTK
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:55:31 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
Pros/cons? and please, no philosphy about integrated vs independent
tools...I am interested in aspects such as what things work? what
doesn't? user experiences such as strengths and weakness (again
actual/functional and
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:57 -0400
Dave McGuire mcgu...@neurotica.com wrote:
On 08/19/2011 12:18 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
My PCB+GL branches are now rebased against git HEAD, with all the
excellent work from Andrew Poelstra on the internal unit conversion
to nanometers.
Please test and
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:48:31 +0200
Bert Timmerman bert.timmer...@xs4all.nl wrote:
I think such a thing would look like:
http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/selector.png
What do people think of this?
IMHO, the former proposal with visibilty buttons without rectangles
is the improvement
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:25:06 -0700
Jared Casper jaredcas...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
2. Whenever you hide a layer, the selector would jump to the
previously-selected layer. I haven't tried it yet, but I
think that from
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:57:33 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:50:25AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
I like the color swatch and how it shows a small
rectangle of the layer color when the layer is hidden; if this
swatch were the show/hide toggle
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:11:13 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
EVERY time I draw a new footprint, I spend half the time figuring
out where the “imaginary” line endpoint should lie.
I just use the rectangle tool.
Oh! I forgot you can use the rectangle tool to make pads too. That
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:48:48 +0200
Felix Ruoff fe...@posaunenmission.de wrote:
I personally like the new style you created. Its very nice! I think
the reason for adding this small rectangles is, that its easier to
see, if the button is pressed.
Good point. I do like the full color fill you
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:01:30 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 07:31:24AM +1000, Stephen Ecob wrote:
Good point. I do like the full color fill you show, Andrew.
However, I think we need a better way of indicating which layers
are visible. Perhaps a
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:35:46 -0500 (CDT)
kqt4a...@comcast.net wrote:
I am sure this has been done to death but I have to ask
I am a beginner and the way I am using gschem and pcb is quite awkward
I open my schematic in gschem and open pcb
Then when I add a component in gschem I switch to pcb
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:53:21 +0100
Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
I have some ideas about how pad-stacks could be made more general
though, so a square pad (like many others) is just a special case of a
polygon - which can, of course.. be rotated arbitrarily, either at the
pad level, or
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:48:42 -0400
Gus Fantanas fanta...@innocent.com wrote:
Third, can pcb handle UTF-8 characters? On the silkscreen I want the
Ω character to appear (for Ohms, as in 50Ω). The text entry window
accepts the Ω just fine, but then the text on the silkscreen displays
/two/
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:23:15 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
I've created two directories in my home directory to store symbol
files that I create, and another directory to store footprints I
create: /home/jjh/project/component_symbols
/home/jjh/project/component_footprints
How
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:24:34 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:29:59AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
Because of this bug (it is completely a bug from the user's point of
view), as you suggested I always make my nominally-square pads
slightly non-square
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:02:07 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
/-- YOUR-PROJECT.g2p ---
schematics YOUR-PROJECT.sch
output-name YOUR-PROJECT
elements-dir
FULL-PATH-TO-THE-DIR-BELOW-THE_DIRS-THAT-CONTAIN-YOUR-FOOTPRINTS
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:24:24 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
No big deal, just copy the symbols from the component
library into your new design project's Symbols directory as you need
them. This small effort is, for me, completely worth
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:34:38 +0200
Levente Kovacs leventel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:36:25 + (UTC)
Sparky scop...@gmail.com wrote:
For my outline layer I did the following to add the attribute:
Edit-Edit attribute of-CurrentLayer
Left box: PCB::skip-drc
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:04:54 -0700
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
I've created gEDA/pcb footprints for the Tag-Connect
TC2030-MCP / TC2030-MCP-NL connectors. The TC2030 family of cables
have a special connector using spring-pin (aka pogo-pin) contacts and
do not require any BOM
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:31:39 +0200 (CEST)
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote:
Andrew Poelstra:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:30:34PM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
...
-#define LARGE_VALUE(LONG_MAX / 2 - 1) /* maximum
extent of board and elements */ +#define LARGE_VALUE
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:03:31 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:40:51AM -0400, John Hudak wrote:
I came across an board layout file that requires a newer version
of PCB than I have installed. My version of PCB is 20091103. If I
upgrade to the most
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:34:58 -0700
yamazakir2 yamazak...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree, magnetic mode is an instant disable for me everytime I
install gschem
Agreed... I like the idea of magnetic mode, especially when drawing
nets when zoomed out pretty far--it can be hard to click exactly on the
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:40:51 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
I came across an board layout file that requires a newer version of
PCB than I have installed. My version of PCB is 20091103. If I
upgrade to the most recent version of PCB, will it be able to
interoperate with gschem
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:50:31 +0200
Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz k.kosciuszkiew...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/8/11 Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com:
Another thing that might make working with nets easier is it took
fewer clicks to move vertices. Similar to how it is often
irritating to have
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:04:47 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Please test this and let me know what needs to be done. Thanks!
OK, I have noticed one bug. If I draw some lines on a copper layer,
two strange things occur:
(1) When I click on a line, it becomes highlighted and is
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:04:47 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Please test this and let me know what needs to be done. Thanks!
Nice work! So far it all looks great. I haven't stressed it with
any fancy layouts yet, but all I can say so far is WOW and thanks for
your effort.
I'll let
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:16:38 +0200 (CEST)
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote:
Andrew Poelstra:
I have a pcb branch available here for testing:
git clone git://wpsoftware.net/pcb-andrew.git
git checkout coord6
...
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory
list software
probably makes it easy to lose a few messages in the noise.
Regards,
Colin
Begin forwarded message:
From: John Doty j...@noqsi.com
Date: August 2, 2011 12:56:22 PM MST
To: Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com
Cc: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org, Kai-Martin
in the gEDA community
- Not happy with moderation of geda-user mailing list
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 09:13:54 -0700
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:33:50 -0700
John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote:
You'll note that this message never appeared on the list. I never
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:47:25 +0100
Rob Spanton rspan...@zepler.net wrote:
I've recently been playing around with designing footprints by
describing a set of constraints that position features relative to
each other. This is rather than specifying the absolute co-ordinates
of every feature.
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:32:58 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
The correct syntax is:
Attribute(PCB::skip-drc 1)
...
By the way, what is the reason for the funny attribute name
with two colons in the middle? The source treats it just like
a
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:48:09 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
A feature I have heard previously requested is to be able to mark
certain layers as “no-DRC”. For instance, to allow special trace
elements such as antennas that the DRC thinks
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:20:50 +0200 (CEST)
SZABO Tamas sza2k...@freemail.hu wrote:
Is the any easier and accurate way to place connectors to the right
position?
Furthermore, a part of my converted pcb always outside of the pcb
editing area. Can I center it somehow? The commands I use:
-
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 21:29:39 +0300
Павел Таранов taranov.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.04 with classic Gnome (you can switch
on GDM prompt).
But Ubuntu team promice to remove this feature on next realeses...
I promise if that happens, I will to switch to Debian... and
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:24:21 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
Hi.
My current project calls for big currents and and fine pitch SMD
components, too. So I opted for four layers with 35 µm copper on
outer and 105 µm copper on inner layers. Now, my fab requests 250 µm
On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:57:28 -0500
John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote:
On 08/02/11 03:44, Chris Smith wrote:
I'm developing
an application that needs to send a stream of data from one device
to another, but I don't have much experience with wireless
Not so sure about the data
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:44:23 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
I wish it was possible to toggle visibility of individual layers
within a group.
Your wish is my command! :-)
See the attached patch. With this patch you can use the control key
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:32:46 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
DJ Delorie wrote:
You can't. Footprints are strictly made from lines and rectangles.
No arcs, no text, no weird polygons.
Wrong. The silkscreen is made from lines and arcs, no rectangles or
polygons.
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:58:12 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Hi.
Just finished my latest, a bit larger layout (The one I bragged about
lately). After I added polygons to pour the remaining board estate
with copper, PCB slowed down significantly. Frames per second as
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:39:04 -0600
jb...@frii.com wrote:
People reading this list already know this, so this is mostly a post
for people who are searching the web trying to figure out how to make
milled or very high power/heatsinking boards in which having thermal
clearance around pads
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:28:21 +0200
Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote:
Am 26.07.2011 um 07:33 schrieb bsali...@gmail.com:
1. Schematic board are decoupled so any changes to schematic need
to be re-synced to the board. I haven't figured out the way yet.
Look up and use xgsch2pcb.
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
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.
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:17:39 -0700
bsali...@gmail.com bsali...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess that his question might have been asked before but is there
any howto or tutorial to migrate from Eagle to gEDA?
I tried Google searches but no meaningful information has been found.
Do you mean migration
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:01:13 +0100
Andy Fierman andyfier...@signality.co.uk wrote:
Is it just me being a Grumpy Old Man or does anyone else take issue
with RS over their advertising for their Design Spark EDA tool?
Everyone should demand truth in advertising! ...Grumpy Old Men and
Irreverent
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:38:25 -0700
Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed, but to remove them we need to make the script that replaces
current functionality.
It would be nice to see the hierarchy expander open up the pins to
gschem file for a large connector, on say an auto
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:56:18 -0300
Adrian Pardini pardo.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/07/2011, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
And not m4 script, please! Ideally various scripting languages
could be used (Python, Perl, Scheme, Lua, etc.) as various users
prefer. Personally, I
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:02 +0200
Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
These too will be changed as we move away from a strict mm/mil
configuration.
I'm not sure what to do about them. Right now I have a giant
table
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:30:43 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:09:13AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
There is already some information in user preference that should
really be configurabel on a per project base. Skipping through the
file:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:56 -0700
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:02 +0200
Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote:
Great. As an astronomer, I really need to be able to define
my PCB in astronomical units and parsecs :-)
You'll have to wait for 64-bit
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:02:28 -0600
Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote:
Stretched arcs are a misfeature. Can they be deprecated?
Otherwise, they are just another object that cannot be rotated at
arbitrary angles.
There is no inherent reason elliptical arcs cannot be rotated
arbitrarily.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:46:11 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Hey all,
Right now in the Gtk HID when you change grid units between
mm/mil, it will try to translate your grid setting into the
new units by finding something sufficiently close in the
menu.
...
To the user, this
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:52:38 -0700
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
While I really would like the advanced user-defined grids as in the
recent patch, at least fixing this will help. Often I want to measure
something in mils as I am laying out components on a metric grid. So
I click
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:05:22 +0200
Michael Theurl michael.the...@smog.at wrote:
Hello Chris,
That's sounds great.
Maybe i can help you, i wrote a script to export pdfs and handbooks
for geda/pcb projects. I Attach you the script. I use Fedora Core 14
with the standart geda-gaf rpms.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
To follow up on this, the bug with the new patch is at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154
also see the geda-user mailing list thread titled
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700
Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Maybe we can store the grids in user preferences instead,
but that's potentially a fair bit of work.
Regardless of implementation difficulty, user preferences are NOT the
place to store grid configurations, since each
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