Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 07:56 PM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: DJ's clarification aside, I would vote for top/bottom, with each of those symbolically being placed in the list. That is, for an 8-layer default: Top, Layer 2, Layer 3, ..., Layer 7, Bottom +1 JG

Re: gEDA-user: coding style

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 10:04 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Well, C itself doesn't seem to be used too much outside of 10 year old code. Nowadays the language du jour seems to be Python, and C is only used for library-type projects that want many language bindings. IMHO everything should be Lisp.;) :-) JG

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 08:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: You're +1'ing something we already have, Whoops. On 09/18/2011 08:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: So... go get the release and test it OK. There's another unfinished/overdue project on my to do list... I will attempt to swap sleep/insomnia for executing

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 09:01 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: This patch replaces component and solder in the leftmost item of the status line of the GTK HID with top and bottom. Thanks for work to improve the GUI Kai-Martin. JG ___ geda-user mailing list

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

2011-09-11 Thread John Griessen
On 09/10/2011 11:33 PM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: i find that the documentation for creating hierarchical designs (schematics encapsulated inside a gschem symbol) is rather scattered so I'm going to start off with that first. If anyone has already written this please let me know! I have some

gEDA-user: EZBOARD -- use gEDA without knowing it

2011-09-10 Thread John Griessen
On 09/10/2011 10:35 AM, Jared Casper wrote: A reason for the success of the toys is that documentations seems to be not needed. I agree with the idea, but the thing is, the Apple software that doesn't need documentation doesn't do a whole lot. Yes, and the hobby CAD users want it to be

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

2011-09-10 Thread John Griessen
On 09/10/2011 06:20 PM, Jared Casper wrote: gEDA is as far away from Fritzing as Word is from NotePad. Jared But they both have many of the same low level primitive commands and actions. I think you could base two apps on the same code and many of the users would never know, since some are

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

gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-08 Thread John Griessen
and paste buffers needs to be invisible by default and otional with a workaround that does not require knowing they exist. After these low level stoppers, we should find textbooks to study on GUI design, compare those to Orcad twenty years ago, and copy what is not patented. John Griessen

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

2011-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 10:03 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: Yes, i know that the workflow is tool dependent, but there are many tools out there that follow a more or less similar workflow and i think gEDA should match that as well. If there is a good reason to deviate from that common workflow, it should be

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

2011-09-08 Thread John Griessen
are still some things in the docs which could use some elaboration for new users, beside returning users like myself - [jg]I think DJs docs are fabulous too. John Griessen -- Ecosensory ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

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

2011-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 11:28 AM, asom...@gmail.com wrote: I find the two-letter commands to be very fast to use. They're one of the main reasons why I prefer gschem to the expensive proprietary program I used at my last job. But maybe that's just because I'm a vi user.;) I think the double strokes

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

2011-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2011 01:01 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: Don't ever assume that a non native engligh speaker will understand thoose words or view them as anything else than some random characters lumped together. Another reason gschem would benefit from no-recompile-required key binding configurability

Re: gEDA-user: CERN goes for KiCAD

2011-09-07 Thread John Griessen
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

Re: gEDA-user: CERN goes for KiCAD

2011-09-06 Thread John Griessen
On 09/06/2011 05:20 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak 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. They had said that at the start, really. No surprise.

gEDA-user: gEDA request for volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread John Griessen
Original Message Subject: Re: [OH Updates] Degrees of open-ness in EDA (and CAD in general) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:58:40 -0400 From: phillip torrone p...@oreilly.com To: updates upda...@lists.openhardwaresummit.org john, can you write up what's needed for gEDA in a couple

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

2011-09-05 Thread John Griessen
On 09/05/2011 09:33 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Also, they tend to bit-rot and break when the main source moves on. That's why they are separate. There is not enough coding/testing man-or-woman-power to pull all conceivable plugins along with core changes. Seems obvious. The ones that are

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA request for volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread John Griessen
On 09/05/2011 11:55 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: See gpleda.org for information on mailing lists changed that. JG ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: plugins

2011-09-05 Thread John Griessen
On 09/05/2011 12:29 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: I think it would help a lot if the scheme or c code underlying functions showed in the log window in a way that can be cut and pasted to execute it again, or create a script that can be run with a button. pcb --verbose does that, but there's still

Re: gEDA-user: plugins

2011-09-05 Thread John Griessen
On 09/05/2011 01:21 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Cursor movements have their own channel, so just re-running all the actions you see won't duplicate what actually happened. For example: Action: PointCursor() Action: Mode(Notify) Action: PointCursor() Action: PointCursor() Action: PointCursor()

gEDA-user: Fwd: Re: [OH Updates] Degrees of open-ness in EDA (and CAD in general)

2011-09-04 Thread John Griessen
in feel free to send it to the list here and i'll grab it from here assuming no one has an additions to it. cheers, pt On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:54 PM, John Griessen wrote: On 09/03/2011 03:50 PM, Pierce Nichols wrote: Taking those over to KiCAD or geda by hand would be a big time hit... time

Re: gEDA-user: Fwd: Re: [OH Updates] Degrees of open-ness in EDA (and CAD in general)

2011-09-04 Thread John Griessen
On 09/04/2011 08:10 AM, John Griessen wrote: I could use some help with this write up! I'll write something up and ask for reviews soon. John Original Message Subject: Re: [OH Updates] Degrees of open-ness in EDA (and CAD in general) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:58:40 -0400 From

gEDA-user: Fwd: Re: [OH Updates] How can you help solve the proprietary tool problem?

2011-09-02 Thread John Griessen
Does the category low end bother you? Original Message Subject: Re: [OH Updates] How can you help solve the proprietary tool problem? Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:12:20 +1000 From: Dave Jones d...@eevblog.com CC: upda...@lists.openhardwaresummit.org I'm planning a review of the

Re: gEDA-user: How to find which specific part of a PCB is shorted?

2011-08-31 Thread John Griessen
On 08/31/2011 04:57 PM, Thomas Oldbury wrote: The 3.3V bus is used all over the board. How can I locate specifically which part is shorted? Divide and conquer...delete some trace segments or reroute 2 pieces where one long one is and see what changes... It must be something I placed

gEDA-user: good explanations of open source licenses and copyright applied to open hardware

2011-08-30 Thread John Griessen
Just read these and very clarifying. http://perens.com/works/testimony/PerensJMRI.pdf http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3775446/Bruce-Perens-A-Big-Change-for-Open-Source.htm ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down?

2011-08-30 Thread John Griessen
On 08/30/2011 04:14 PM, Russell Dill wrote: I imagine I'm not the only one running a git mirror of gedasymbols.org. If you rely on gedasymbols.org in any way, It'd be wise to do the same. Oh, it's getting handled by DJ doing a secondary DNS server setup eventually. Then the web server mirror

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down?

2011-08-29 Thread John Griessen
On 08/29/2011 06:23 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: It's back, but there's supposed to be a backup server on the west coast... There is, but there's no backup DNS server, so I'm not sure you can ping it when the main server goes down. John ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Foss-pcb Proposed plan from CERN

2011-08-24 Thread John Griessen
On 08/22/2011 11:29 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The commercial package he wants to keep up with seems to be altium designer. Oh, I guess that's why I referred his request to others. I like the radical flexibility of gEDA tools without getting evangelical about it, and KiCAD is closer to

gEDA-user: Foss-pcb Proposed plan from CERN

2011-08-21 Thread John Griessen
I'm swamped. CERN might come up with tip money for developers. Anyone have the time to be in a committee? John Griessen Original Message Subject: [Fwd: Proposed plan] Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:24:46 +0200 From: Javier Serrano javier.serr...@cern.ch To: John Griessen j

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-13 Thread John Griessen
On 08/13/2011 06:10 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Who are the people, who are in the position to do so? What effort is needed? Not me. I'm hoping to do some work on gnetlist scheme programming to get verilogAMS netlists to connect well with gnucap, but have to spend time doing housing

Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree

2011-08-10 Thread John Griessen
On 08/10/2011 06:04 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Please test this and let me know what needs to be done. Thanks! Thanks Andrew. busy til Wednesday, then will try it out. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Wireless comms options

2011-08-08 Thread John Griessen
On 08/08/11 06:21, Chris Smith wrote: I'm guessing that composite will be easier to work with? Depends on the video sender products you find. If there's one for analog, that's problem solved. Do you have plenty of power at both ends? Google shows that there are plenty of video sender

Re: gEDA-user: Constraint-based PCB footprint design

2011-08-08 Thread John Griessen
On 08/07/11 21:47, Rob Spanton wrote: https://xgoat.com/wp/2011/08/08/playing-with-footprints-and-constraints/ The tool is by no means complete... it's the result of just a few hours work right now. Thanks for sharing that, looks like python style of sub-function.sub-function.function()

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-06 Thread John Griessen
On 08/05/11 14:35, yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? Both. Email is via Mozilla thunderbird, which seems to handle cross platform things well. I still don't have a player for .wmv video working though. Using Firefox with the latest

Re: gEDA-user: Wedana milestone reached

2011-08-06 Thread John Griessen
On 08/06/11 08:54, Павел Таранов wrote: 3. Trac plugin introduced. See demo http://demo.wedana.org/night_builds/trac 4. We have own domain now: http://www.wedana.org launched. Also http://demo.wedana.org available. Looks good. I could not figure how to use the origin input to get a symbol

Re: gEDA-user: Wedana milestone reached

2011-08-06 Thread John Griessen
On 08/06/11 14:24, Павел Таранов wrote: When I entered a pos number, the symbol view is off screen. neg number had no effect... Position (inc): 0:0 Seems it is not obvious, but after you change value in position, press Draw button. The result when I do that is the symbol moves to

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread John Griessen
On 08/04/11 13:08, Markus wrote: What desktop are you using for gEDA? Xfce on debian unstable ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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 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: verilog - gschem

2011-07-08 Thread John Griessen
backends for verilog. John Griessen ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: OT: help needed; asymmetric load after rectifier seems to disrupt its working.

2011-06-24 Thread John Griessen
On 06/24/2011 06:10 AM, myken wrote: I think that has something to do with the fact we used a pulse transformer to try the circuit. Looks like a diode drop to me, not transformer problems. You've got a series chain of reactances. You're gonna get oscillations and lagging, leading voltage

Re: gEDA-user: OT: help needed; asymmetric load after rectifier seems to disrupt its working.

2011-06-16 Thread John Griessen
On 06/16/2011 01:30 PM, myken wrote: see Rectifier_sim.jpeg) Everything works fine if LOAD_1 and LOAD_2 are equal. Lose C1. Lose R1. Add L2 feeding D1. Separate D1 D2. Add some rc filter R between D2, C2. Or try moving L1 between D2, C2 John ___

Re: gEDA-user: Water proof panel connectors

2011-06-09 Thread John Griessen
On 06/08/2011 11:08 PM, Rob Butts wrote: I forgot to mention the power sources are DC and the power connectors need to have at least 6 amp rating. http://www.mouser.com/catalog/629/1099.pdf 31 amps and here are some ideas on ways to use these type of connectors for battery boxes:

Re: gEDA-user: Water proof panel connectors

2011-06-09 Thread John Griessen
On 06/08/2011 11:08 PM, Rob Butts wrote: the more water proof the better. http://www.andersonpower.com/products/spec-pak-connectors.html ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-07 Thread John Griessen
On 06/07/2011 06:05 AM, Ethan Swint wrote: I've got the line (component-library-search /../../footprints) in my gafrc file. Does that set a priority? -Ethan Not sure of the concept of priority, but I think yes. pcb probably uses the first it finds and that line will be the first searched.

Re: gEDA-user: Hierarchy help

2011-06-06 Thread John Griessen
On 06/06/2011 01:13 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: OK- I've been messing around with hierarchy for the first time, but I'm a bit lost. I've got an asymmetric phase leg inverter with three phases, Yes, that's a good use of the flattened hierarchy we can do for now. My problem then comes when I try

Re: gEDA-user: Two things ... or actually, three

2011-06-01 Thread John Griessen
On 06/01/2011 02:54 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: But how (and where) would such global rules be defined? In the chip biz you write design rules that create connectivity based on overlap, or boolean intersection of areas being greater than a minimum number of units. Those rules use features of

Re: gEDA-user: Jumpers on single layer PCBs

2011-05-31 Thread John Griessen
On 05/31/2011 04:26 PM, Thomas Oldbury wrote: Double sided boards are great, but not so great when the product is supposed to cost only $3/each, after an MSP430, mains power supply, heatsink, triac etc. You seem to have BOM'd out on that product...

Re: gEDA-user: Jumpers on single layer PCBs

2011-05-31 Thread John Griessen
On 05/31/2011 04:26 PM, Thomas Oldbury wrote: Double sided boards are great, but not so great when the product is supposed to cost only $3/each What you really want is the high volume technique of using carbon conductive ink traces and insulating layers silk screened on and single copper

gEDA-user: gnetlist (was: Perl)

2011-05-30 Thread John Griessen
On 05/30/2011 01:50 AM, John Doty wrote: But who's volunteering? On 05/30/2011 01:50 AM, John Doty wrote: So, one way or another, we're looking at a new tool, I think. Maybe we keep the old gnetlist around and feed it modified/annotated schematics. There will always be people who don't

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist

2011-05-30 Thread John Griessen
On 05/30/2011 11:55 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: One thought I had for gnetlist backends, is to recode gnetlist as a set of libraries. The Core would only load the design files (schematics, spreadsheets, databases, back-annotation info, etc) as raw data; the backend would be required to call at least

Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-28 Thread John Griessen
On 05/28/2011 10:01 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: This is my opinion, speaking as a professional developer of both hardware and software: Scheme was a good choice for gEDA, and it should be left alone. The chosen implementation of Scheme, guile, may not be the best tool for the job right now, but

Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-27 Thread John Griessen
On 05/26/2011 07:40 PM, John Doty wrote: If the consensus is that gnetlist is the place to perform the transformations we're discussing, then we're in Scheme territory, I think. I can't see abandoning guile/scheme. I've even written scripts in Cadence skill language, which is pretty much

Re: gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-25 Thread John Griessen
On 05/24/2011 04:02 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Mike Bushroembush...@gmail.com writes: As for names, data pack I like data pack. But the seed idea is growing on me too. Beats python eggs! They sound like a natural disaster in Florida... ___

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-25 Thread John Griessen
On 05/24/2011 07:22 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: if it's layout-specific data, the copy in the layout is correct. Perhaps we need to keep track of whether the data in the layout and schematic originated in that file, or is the result of user changes elsewhere being imported. But any solution depends

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Griessen
On 05/23/2011 10:13 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: changed component-library-search to descend into subdirectories (see diff). The result is as seen in attachment (dump.jpg). Dang, that was quick Karl! John ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Griessen
On 05/23/2011 11:44 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: comment on the functionality which the screen dump hints you at? Like it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-22 Thread John Griessen
On 05/22/2011 10:37 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Next try: packet This can also contain all kinds of objects. It closely avoids the clash with the meaning of package in data sheets. Packet is a good one. If someone is confused they can be told library packet, or see it is in library context.

Re: gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-22 Thread John Griessen
On 05/21/2011 11:35 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: So that wires that have the same meaning are still hooked up but new pins are unconnected, or old pins that no longer exist are now not connected. The other wish list ideas sound like where we are headed, but this last is probably beyond coder

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-22 Thread John Griessen
On 05/22/2011 08:57 PM, John Doty wrote: I've been working on this for six years, now, and it's wonderful to see it all built and plugged together. Congrats John. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-22 Thread John Griessen
On 05/22/2011 11:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: And if you gate-swap between packages, you then need to know which two subcircuits get their gates swapped. That might become an instance label like: I1.1 for slot 1 I1.2 for slot 2 And since I don't use heirarchy, I can only assume it's even more

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
file name. Instead of SOIC-8.fp.meta we would use SOIC-8.fp.I231.meta which contains attribs symbolname=FET_dual_11234.sym symbol-meta-data=FET_dual_11234.I002.sym.meta footprintname=SOIC-8.fp. John Griessen -- Ecosensory ___ geda-user mailing list

gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
metadata to a footprint if you have a connection between footprint and metadata made by them being in a data dir container. Doesn't matter what container. John Griessen ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi

gEDA-user: data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
On 05/22/2011 12:33 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I like the idea of creating a library group containing all info related to a manufactured part or part range. Library group? Or just a library? (not picking on the name, just wondering what you think the difference is, or why such a difference might

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-14 Thread John Griessen
or Physical_layer which would require changing how outline is done -- like John Doty suggested. As is, the terminology makes people that use gimp or photoshop or inkscape think of image or drawing layers that can be arranged in any order. John Griessen

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-13 Thread John Griessen
On 05/13/2011 08:10 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: Comments? Sounds close to the approach of Fritzing, where wiring is documented as literal wires put in a plug-board. Your concept is different only in keeping the as built prototype as a reference -- no plug-board. One step of getting the omitted

Re: gEDA-user: PCB gcode generation

2011-04-27 Thread John Griessen
outline was defined by a layer called outline holding just a 10 mil wide trace, the center of which was the desired board edge.) tek_7k_flex.gcode.front.cnc contained 465 polygons, so it was different... John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-11 Thread John Griessen
On 04/11/2011 02:11 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: consider layers with the same Z coordinate as a layer group OK, that could be used for stackup, and also farther along, Z is a general axis designator, so would become Z position in the stackup, so your group number attrib should be some other

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA

2011-04-11 Thread John Griessen
On 04/11/2011 08:08 AM, Andrew Seddon wrote: I'm more interested in keeping the editing to domain specific tools but allow viewing in general purpose packages. Sounds good. On 04/11/2011 08:18 AM, Andrew Seddon wrote: I suppose my sole purpose for SVG right now is the warm fuzzy feeling of

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-10 Thread John Griessen
On 04/10/2011 03:55 PM, Andrew Seddon wrote: I am exploring the idea of using the Scalable Vector Graphics standard as an EDA format. $ firefox symbol.svg renders a familiar looking symbol on my debian linux machine. So, are you thinking of making a translation in and out of gschem for all

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-10 Thread John Griessen
On 04/10/2011 06:42 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: would such a layout be a better default for you? Fine by me. JG -- Ecosensory Austin TX ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-10 Thread John Griessen
On 04/10/2011 07:51 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Supporting complex geometry primitives which SVG would bring also means internal processing in PCB might get more difficult. And then the ones using external programs to create such data could do the changes to pcb to allow it to parse those

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-10 Thread John Griessen
On 04/10/2011 08:26 PM, Bob Paddock wrote: Sometimes the outer layers are called Primary and Secondary. Main and Second are shorter and might convey similar meaning and be more usable... JG ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Split ground planes and zero ohm jumpers

2011-04-09 Thread John Griessen
On 04/08/2011 03:43 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: Like this? # 3216 / 1206 as connecting footprint Works perfectly fine (for the attached pcb file) till you press o: Warning! Net unnamed_net1 is shorted to net unnamed_net3 Warning! Net unnamed_net1 is shorted to F1 pad c Thanks Karl. That's

Re: gEDA-user: Split ground planes and zero ohm jumpers

2011-04-08 Thread John Griessen
On 04/08/2011 11:44 AM, Russell Dill wrote: I'm not sure if it could be done simpler, but for a special copper trace that connects two planes, you would do DRC twice, one time ignoring between the trace and plane A, and another between the trace and plane B. That is a method consistent with

Re: gEDA-user: Split ground planes and zero ohm jumpers

2011-04-07 Thread John Griessen
On 04/07/2011 04:52 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: PCB layer groups may be used here. Put the short on an extra layer, in an extra group. At checkout time, you can assign the extra layer to the group representing the copper layer that needs shorting. This is probably a single char in the PCB

Re: gEDA-user: Split ground planes and zero ohm jumpers

2011-04-06 Thread John Griessen
On 04/06/2011 05:16 PM, Russell Dill wrote: The use case I'm talking about, you have two nets, say GND and AGND1 which are two planes that are connected at a single point. Connecting a component on the AGND1 side is different that connecting a component on the GND side. Yes, Levente's way of

gEDA-user: Cheap pcbs ( was: info on pcbinternational)

2011-03-24 Thread John Griessen
in +60 qty 180 $403. -?- .20/sq in +60 John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

2011-03-24 Thread John Griessen
-up materials, additive processes will naturally demand insulator materials that go down as printed layers, just as solder mask, copper, silk-screen do now. Once you go all the way to defining presence of material as your basic model, you no longer need any definers of negative space... John

Re: gEDA-user: Cheap pcbs ( was: info on pcbinternational)

2011-03-24 Thread John Griessen
On 03/24/2011 08:12 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: http://ecosensory.com/tek/tek_7k_flex-prototype-1-sm.gif Whoa, you're doing some Tek 7000-series plugin hacking? Mind if I ask for more information? Hi Dave, Dave Casey asked for plugin prototyping capability for some ideas he has. I have not

Re: gEDA-user: Selecting components in PCB

2011-03-07 Thread John Griessen
On 03/07/2011 03:56 PM, Rob Butts wrote: I got it! Normally I hit the shift key once and it holds it down for one key stroke or mouse click but this time I had to hit the shift key twice to get it to hold down. Good. I was thinking maybe the key shortcuts could be remapped, but that

Re: gEDA-user: Standard Thru-hole preferences

2011-03-06 Thread John Griessen
On 03/06/2011 02:57 PM, Rob Butts wrote: Is there a standard for pad thickness, mask diameter and clearance for thru-holes? For wire to board? Not sure. Probably somewhere in some corporation in the last 60 years... Soldering works very forgivingly -- even with no-lead. I'd just use

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 05:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: It depends on the primitives used - but I expect it is not too hard either way. SVG does of course support a lot of things which RS-274X cannot though. OK. YOU can make SVG that is easily translatable, but if you had a footprint tool that used it

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 02:41 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: it might be less work to replace or complement the current track drawing stuff with a generic SVG drawing library. Then every layout is also a valid SVG file and can be edited with other applications as well. The tricky part is keeping the connection

Re: gEDA-user: Get a pin or net list count

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 01:24 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Is there a way to get a pin or netlist count for a multi-page schematic in gschem? I'd run the netlist through a python script that counts the pins that are in the form symbolname1-pinname1. But that would give you the pins used by the

gEDA-user: RS-274X, etc. (was Google Summer of Code..)

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 07:41 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: At work we use odb++ valor files. That sounds like the rumor I heard. odb sounds open. I bet it just sounds open and creates vendor lock in.. Uh... yeah. Like I thought: http://www.artwork.com/odb++/odb++_overview.htm

Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

2011-03-04 Thread John Griessen
On 03/02/2011 12:53 AM, yamazakir2 wrote: I bought a $30 toaster oven from walmart and yeah you guys are right it seems to work fine. If you buy a ramp and soak thermocouple controller off ebay, and graft the two together, it will work as well as the IR Reflow Station box from China. The

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-04 Thread John Griessen
On 03/02/2011 06:49 AM, Stefan Tauner wrote: my idea is some combination of the existing propsals: - Gschem parts manager or parts database (glue) - IPC Footprint Calculator (pcb) and my own idea: a stand-alone pcb footprint editor. A footprint calculator that uses IPC guidelines plus an

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-04 Thread John Griessen
On 03/02/2011 03:56 PM, Bert Timmerman wrote: And https://github.com/bert/pcb-fpw/wiki/User-Manual-for-pcb-gfpw This one is aimed to be more resembling with the IPC Footprint Calculator without violating IP and such. I hope to release version 0.0.11 this month. Wow! That will be really

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-04 Thread John Griessen
On 03/04/2011 06:24 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: I thought basing it on svg with layers defined to be each layer in a layout. But SVG is a shape outline format and RS-274X is centerline and width format. A round ended pad in RS-274X is a pair of points to define a line and a number to define

Re: gEDA-user: What stops PCB autorouter/toporouter from working right?

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 01:04 PM, John Griessen wrote: I have 1.6GB RAM free before starting connects--autoroute and all the RAM but 64K is used during autoroute for 12 seconds of CPU time over about 40 seconds. I wasn't reporting CPU time right though, it uses minutes, and I needed to subtract

Re: gEDA-user: What stops PCB autorouter/toporouter from working right?

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 01:20 PM, John Griessen wrote: I wasn't reporting CPU time right though, top TIME+ uses minutes, and I needed to subtract the time when I start to be meaningful. It's more like 5 or 6 minutes of top TIME+, but only 1.5 minutes wall clock time til it seg faults. JG

Re: gEDA-user: Board cleaner recommendations

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 01:38 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: what do you guys use to get it looking flux-free and clean again? If you use water wash flux and solder paste, you can use hot water and a little detergent. Could use the dish washer machine too. John ___

Re: gEDA-user: Board cleaner recommendations

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 02:20 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: Is water soluble flux better (for cleaning)? The salesman from Nordson EFD (electronic fluid dispensing) said so. They sell the systems for medium volume where you use paste dispensing instead of or to augment solder paste masks, so you can do a

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 03:49 PM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: For example the outline of the board on the attached picture Looks like a sea urchin! Yay non-GUI! JG ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: What stops PCB autorouter/toporouter from working right?

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 01:39 PM, John Griessen wrote: On 02/23/2011 01:20 PM, John Griessen wrote: I wasn't reporting CPU time right though, top TIME+ uses minutes, and I needed to subtract the time when I start to be meaningful. It's more like 5 or 6 minutes of top TIME+, but only 1.5 minutes wall

Re: gEDA-user: What stops PCB autorouter/toporouter from working right?

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 09:09 PM, John Griessen wrote: ==32105== Whatever the reason, Valgrind cannot continue. Sorry. Seems like the problem may not even be related to pcb... But it's triggered by pcb. The swap amount grows fast at first, then when about 3GB of RAm is used the rate slows to only

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