Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-07 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:18:18 -0400 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: How about this: Let footprints contain a file name of an macro image from the top. Then, the photo mode could use the image to render a populated board. ;-) I thought of that, but you need to be able to correctly align

Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-07 Thread John Luciani
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Eric Brombaugh ebrombau...@cox.net wrote: Whenever I post pix from photo mode I always get questions about what tool I used to do them. Surprising that none of the big pro tools out there provide that. Who says OSS apps always follow the lead of the

Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: How about this: Let footprints contain a file name of an macro image from the top. Then, the photo mode could use the image to render a populated board. ;-) I thought of that, but you need to be able to correctly align the photo with the rotated/positioned element

gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-06 Thread DJ Delorie
I needed an official photo of a board for a presentation, but the boards aren't back from assembly yet. So I used a photo-mode export of the PCB, and a photograph of a home-etched prototype, and 1-2 hours of GIMP work... http://www.delorie.com/pcb/tmp/photo-mode-plus-plus.html (yes, it's part

Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-06 Thread kai-martin knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: I needed an official photo of a board for a presentation, but the boards aren't back from assembly yet. So I used a photo-mode export of the PCB, and a photograph of a home-etched prototype, and 1-2 hours of GIMP work...

Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-06 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 09/06/2010 06:51 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: I needed an official photo of a board for a presentation, but the boards aren't back from assembly yet. So I used a photo-mode export of the PCB, and a photograph of a home-etched prototype, and 1-2 hours of GIMP work...

Re: gEDA-user: Photo mode to the rescue...

2010-09-06 Thread DJ Delorie
How about this: Let footprints contain a file name of an macro image from the top. Then, the photo mode could use the image to render a populated board. ;-) I thought of that, but you need to be able to correctly align the photo with the rotated/positioned element footprint. BTW, shadows