Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-08 16:33:06 skrev John Doty j...@noqsi.com: On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way I can design it making it automatically understand where it belongs, so I don't need to manually enter all those

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-08 20:39:41 skrev John Doty j...@noqsi.com: On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2011-01-08 16:33:06 skrev John Doty j...@noqsi.com: On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-07 01:31:28 skrev Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: First I manually set the ”device=” to match existing components, No need. The device attribute is not used by anything in the gschem to pcb work flow. then I added ”numslots=” to match

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions? On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I really recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but one for 14, and one for 16 pins devices. I think I called my one

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-04 21:47:59 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 21:14 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: comment=Use 74_pwr.sym for supply I wrote it some months ago... A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I really recommend to do not use

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-05 16:17:57 skrev Karl Hammar k...@aspodata.se: Johnny Rosenberg: Maybe this is in the wiki somewhere and I just missed it, but what are the possible text strings for pintype? Since it is just a text field there is no limitation for what you could type in there. So far I've

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-05 17:22:39 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I really recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but one for 14, and one for 16 pins devices. I

gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
bilateral switches T 200 3600 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 documentation=http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74lv4066a.pdf T 200 3000 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 author=Johnny Rosenberg – johnny.a.rosenb...@gmail.com T 200 2800 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 dist-license=GPL T 200 2600 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 use-license=Unlimited T 200 900 8 10 1 1 0 0 1 value

Re: gEDA-user: Voltage symbols and Spice

2011-01-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
is what you measure apparent power in? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-02 13:13:55 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I didn't add or modify any invisible text except those very unnecessary (?) author- and license lines. I guess I should remove them entirely. License lines are a necessity for sharing. Else, you'd

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-02 20:51:04 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Because the footprint information can be scanned at a glance in the schematic. The footprint needs attention just like the value or the refdes. So it is convenient to have it visible by default. If I

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 03:06:21 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: uploaded them here (temporarily): http://ubuntuone.com/p/W5T/ I just receive this message: Could not locate object ---)kaimartin(--- Something went wrong yesterday, I don't know exactly

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 12:55:41 skrev Florian E. Teply use...@teply.info: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:01:36 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2011-01-01 03:06:21 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: uploaded them here (temporarily): http

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 18:42:49 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: here's a new try, which I tested several times: http://ubuntuone.com/p/W8l/ I just looked at 7400-IEC-1.sym. Some comments: * some lines of invisible text is not on 100 grid. I took a look

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 02:58:36 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de writes: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: __ | | | |o––– |__| Ah, those box shaped symbols. Well, I don't like them. So none of them in my lib

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 15:03:13 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: Well, I guess that I need to make my own symbols then, Yes. Will that be generic, light logic symbols, or 74xx series symbols? I don't know, maybe 74xx series

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 16:31:42 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: No. That's the wrong conclusion. Well, we'll see what will happen. I am still not 100% sure how to create symbols in the first place, so I guess things will move

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
and look for things that are not quite right, I uploaded them here (temporarily): http://ubuntuone.com/p/W5T/ It's a compressed tarball called ”74-IEC.tar.bz2”, containing the 12 symbols. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 22:11:09 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: Den 2010-12-31 16:31:42 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: No. That's the wrong conclusion

gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
all by myself? I can't be the only European user of this program, can I…? Regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 01:37:50 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 01:06 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I looked at the gEDA symbols site, but it was very hard to find anything useful in this matter, since there was no ”preview” thing involved

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/12/29 Levente Kovacs leventel...@gmail.com: On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:01:43 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… We are very good at making wars. We make wars on what kind

Re: gEDA-user: Creating new symbols

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 22:16:18 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: At http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial the following is written: ”When all the edits are done, it's very important when editing symbols to do

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
won't solve the problem, and will break things. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-25 22:12:40 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… Please don't. Well, I guess it's not regrettable anyway; the question is already asked

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:38:35 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Value: → Enter ”390k”. Does it look nice? It certainly does not on my system. Am I doing this right at all? May it be related to your OHM sign? I never use

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:53:38 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:38 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Value: → Enter ”390k”. Does it look nice? It certainly does not on my system. Am I doing this right at all

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
. I much prefer writing LaTeX to writing wiki syntax. Also, diagrams are so much nicer (thank you TikZ!) Peter So you are the ”1% of people who even wanted to help with writing any kinda documentation”? Sorry, I didn't know that. -- Kind regards Johnny

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 11:30:52 skrev Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk: On Friday 24 December 2010 10:27:20 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-12-24 00:53:38 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:38 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 01:10:55 skrev Stephan Boettcher boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: Yet another newbie question then: I tried to enter a value of a resistor (/usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-2.sym, my operating system is Ubuntu 10.10

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 12:32:36 skrev kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: type e x, or (Edit-Edit Text) select Middle-Middle alignment move the alignment mark to the center of the resistor. I tried that now,since you suggested it. Unfortunately it doesn't work like I

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 12:34:27 skrev timecop time...@gmail.com: footprint = what the pads/holes/silk/wahtever on pcb for this component look like. Aah… that makes sense. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2010-12-24 02:27:33 skrev kai

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 13:20:39 skrev Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 12:22 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I tried that now,since you suggested it. Unfortunately it doesn't work like I expected: Left seems to mean right, right seems to mean left, upper seems to mean lower

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 13:37:34 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 12:43 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Now I'd like to save my ”new” symbol somewhere. There is not really a reason to save it, because you have only moved the text around and modified the alignment mark

gEDA-user: Creating new symbols

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
is that there is no ”Save Page” in the File menu. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
! That works perfectly for me! I thought I tried that before, but obviously I didn't do it properly (I experimented with Shift, Ctrl and Alt, but maybe I was just too fast or something…). -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list

gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
looks like this: –39[0kΩ ]––– The value needs to be centred, rather than aligned to the left. I also looked a bit into the /usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-2.sym file, but I'm too much of a newbie to make any relevant changes to such files that actually work… -- Kind regards Johnny

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:08:41 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:00 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Yet another newbie question then: I tried to enter a value of a resistor You can change the alignment mark of text, select the text, and select Edit/Edit Text from

gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill that in by using the Text tool or is there a more proper way to do it? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
very good in my opinion… How do I prevent this from happen? Sorry for not so good English… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
somewhere on the surface and start from there, I can draw the line in two steps… But I have to click somewhere where a small circle does not show up, otherwise it will snap to that small circle… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-22 20:29:39 skrev Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:17:14 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I open a new page, a ”title block” is all I see, and there I can read things like ”DRAWN BY”, ”TITLE”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-22 20:47:41 skrev DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com: The small circle is the snap-to-pin feature. You can disable it (I leave it on) via Options-Toggle Magnetic Net Okay, thanks. :) -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: How to change the default folder for my drawings?

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
is the current directory inside the terminal. I use the Programs menu (Gnome, Ubuntu 10.10) and there is no such option there, unfortunately. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org