gEDA-user: mixed 5.0/3.3/1.8 V designs?

2002-07-11 Thread mcmahill
Given that the power supply connections for many of the logic symbols in the gaf library are implicit (not shown, considered evil by some) whats the way to mix different digital supply voltages in the same design and be fairly certain of not having the wrong ones connected? Also, is it possible

Re: gEDA-user: How to make Bill of Materials?

2002-12-29 Thread mcmahill
This isn't documented in the man page, but you need to create a file called 'attribs' in which you list the attributes that you want to end up in the bill of materials. For example, if you put: refdes device value you'll get those 3 attributes in the BOM. -Dan On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Bob

gEDA-user: gschem - postscript via scheme?

2003-02-14 Thread mcmahill
Is there a way to print to a postscript file from a scheme script? I'm looking for a way to generate postscript from the command line. Thanks -Dan

Re: gEDA-user: gschem - postscript via scheme?

2003-02-15 Thread mcmahill
thanks! Seems that file doesn't actually get installed although its included in the gschem distfile. -Dan On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Charles Lepple wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 06:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to print to a postscript file from a scheme script?

gEDA-user: setting gschem geometry and position?

2003-02-24 Thread mcmahill
Is there a way to specify geometry (size and position) from the command line for gschem? I'm thinking of something like gschem -geometry 500x500+10+5 Thanks -Dan

Re: gEDA-user: Generating PCB output

2003-03-02 Thread mcmahill
You can try looking at: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/PCB/gEDA-PCB.html although be warned that this document still shows the use of 'uref' which should be changed to be 'refdes' now. I can't claim that the document is complete, but its more than nothing. -Dan On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Richard

gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf 20030223 NetBSD packages updated

2003-03-11 Thread mcmahill
I've updated the NetBSD packages to the 20030223 release. As always the top level gEDA package is at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/cad/geda/README.html -Dan

Re: gEDA-user: PCB

2003-03-14 Thread mcmahill
the log window problem does not exist in the -current sources available via anonymous CVS (see 'PCB in CVS' mail). -Dan On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Leva wrote: Hi, I realised that the log window is not opened at startup. When I select Window -- Message Log item, the program crashes and outputs

gEDA-user: easy symbol archive for a design?

2003-03-17 Thread mcmahill
Is there a simple way to create an archive library for a schematic in which all symbols are copied from the original locations to some archive directory? If not, are there any suggestions as to where such a tool would fit in? Ie, a scheme program thats plugged into gschem (this has nice access

Re: gEDA-user: BOM report?

2003-03-20 Thread mcmahill
make a text file called 'attribs' listing the attributes you want in the BOM, for example: refdes value footprint Then do gnetlist -g bom -o bom.txt file1.sch [file2.sch file3.sch ...] -Dan On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Pierre Carecchi wrote: hi, how could I generate a BOM (Bill of material)

Re: gEDA-user: SPICE/gEDA updated. . . . .

2003-03-22 Thread mcmahill
cool stuff. I'll be checking it out tonight. One thing I've been wondering about is how one might have some hooks for a technology file if you wanted to use gEDA for IC type schematics. Where you care about this is the following: You're doing a MOS transistor design. For a given

Re: gEDA-user: SPICE/gEDA updated. . . . .

2003-03-22 Thread mcmahill
As a more concrete example, suppose you have a standard CMOS process. You may have only 2 models for transistors. One is NMOS and one is PMOS. If you take a look at the line in a spice netlist for say the nmos transistor, it looks something like: M1 drain_node gate_node source_node bulk_node

gEDA-user: Switcap symbols and backend available.

2003-03-29 Thread mcmahill
I've created a set of symbols and a gnetlist backend for the SWITCAP switched capacitor circuit simulator. You can grab the archive at: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/outgoing/geda-switcap-20030329.tar.gz This includes the symbols, gnet-switcap.scm file and an example circuit. You'll need

Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] solder mask polarity

2003-07-19 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:36:42 -0400 DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, after a number of emails back and forth with the folks at Advanced Circuits, I learned that the industry standard for solder masks is to print them with positive polarity (i.e. dark where you want solder to go) -

Re: gEDA-user: Missing generic QFP64 form gEDA PCB library

2003-08-11 Thread Dan McMahill
library being that unified library but than tell me which library to use and whom to notify change requests to. Olof - Original Message - From: Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: Re: gEDA

Re: gEDA-user: Missing generic QFP64 form gEDA PCB library

2003-08-14 Thread Dan McMahill
try library ~generic, and select QFP menu, generic. If I were you I'd do some sanity checks on the result (I have no reason to think its wrong, but you should anyway) -Dan On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:27:30 +0200 Olof TÃ¥ngrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I miss a generic QFP64 pattern from the

gEDA-user: *QFP* footprint naming conventions

2003-08-26 Thread Dan McMahill
Hi, I've been going over a patch submitted to pcb by Wojciech Kazubski that supplies several additions to the QFP family of footprints. I would like to incorporate these changes, but would like to discuss some naming conventions here first. One goal I have is to make sure what ever decisions

Re: gEDA-user: gschem vs. autonumbering

2003-09-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:22:08 +0200 Leva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:25:46 -0400 Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use the refdes_renum script outside of gschem. Where can I find that script? Its part of gEDA. Don't recall which version it first

Re: gEDA-user: PCB help . . . .

2003-09-22 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:14:27PM -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote: Hi -- Well, I have decided to take the plunge and try doing a layout using PCB. However, I am already flailing. :-( I read Dan McMahill's HOWTO as well as the various PCB docs, and I think I am following the instructions

Re: gEDA-user: Problem with PCB . . .

2003-09-26 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Bill Wilson wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:00:10 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote: PKG_unknown(unknown,A4,gmin=1e-9) and that means gsch2pcb could not find a package for A4. It seems this will happen for the spice symbols

Re: gEDA-user: Need cool first application for gdatabase

2003-11-05 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:40:26PM -0500, Bill Cox wrote: Hi. I think gdatabase will come into use out there in any significant volume until at least one really cool application is built on it. I'm looking for the right first tool. I'm hoping that if I spear-head development of the

gEDA-user: PCB on cygwin

2003-11-08 Thread Dan McMahill
Hello, At the prompting of Erwan Le Bras, I've done a small amount of work to PCB which seems to have made it go under cygwin. I didn't do much testing past seeing that I could place a few components, save the layout, and then open it back up again. Please note that you'll need Xfree86

Re: gEDA-user: macosx (10.3) - pcb 1.99j - blank menu's / drawing

2003-11-11 Thread Dan McMahill
Compiling by hand or with fink 0.6.1 works fine for me. The pcb binary starts and I can see the pcb workspace and buttons. [but the menus do nothing when selected and the line/via/etc tools don't work] This is the symptom of no app defaults file. If not, then I think you tripped over

Re: gEDA-user: futurenet question

2003-11-18 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:47:42PM +0100, Ferenc M?rton wrote: Hi everybody, This is my first project with geda, and unfortunately I'm not allowed to make the layout myself (would choose PCB, BTW), and I am demanded to produce a futurenet netlist from my sch. Could anyone tell me if it is

Re: gEDA-user: futurenet question

2003-11-19 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:28:30AM +1300, Arnim Littek wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2003, John Griessen wrote: What might be interesting to us on this list, is a look at a sample of a futurenet pinlist. I've never heard of that tool. Dash/Futurenet, from Data I/O in the late 80s/early 90s before

Re: gEDA-user: futurenet question

2003-11-20 Thread Dan McMahill
calls itself a 'pinlist' - I wonder if that's significant? Evan well, you'll note that the 'pinlist' one is missing something fairly important, the package/footprint name for each part. I've written a NV2 netlister which I've placed at http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/geda/gnet-futurenet2.scm

Re: gEDA-user: PCB and stroke

2003-11-28 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:39:34PM -0200, Xtian Xultz wrote: Today, I compiled the tarball in my machine with stroke enabled. I have a very simple serial mouse with three buttons, and the middle button worked as expected, without any reference to strokes... My question is, how and what the

Re: gEDA-user: soldermask relief in PCB

2003-12-16 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:26:05PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Create a new pad for the part with a thickness of zero, setting the x,y points and mask such that the resulting mask is the dimensions you need. The gerber module will omit the flashes for the pad itself and its paste, but will

gEDA-user: annotation layer in PCB

2003-12-16 Thread Dan McMahill
anyone know if there is support for any sort of annotation layer in PCB? I'm looking for something which could be used as, for example, an alignment mark to help me get a connector the correct distance from the board edge or to indicate a via keepout region under a pad. I don't want to use the

gEDA-user: footprint naming for silly sot23's

2003-12-19 Thread Dan McMahill
anyone have any suggestions for good names for sot23 packages? Currently the geda symbol library in PCB uses: SOT23 for: 3 12 which matches drawings found on the Philips and Maxim web sites, and SOT23D for: 1 2 3 which I guess is for some diodes, didn't check

Re: gEDA-user: Life and death for gEDA: portability...

2003-12-29 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +1100, Terry Porter wrote: Dan, your breadth of experience bodes really well for PCB I think, I'm using your latest release right now and it's as smooth as silk, just like Gaf! unfortunately my experience doesn't include much of the real core of PCB.

Re: gEDA-user: Life and death for gEDA: portability...

2003-12-30 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:19:04PM -0500, John Doty wrote: If gnetlist can handle very large flat schematics without slowing down painfully, I'll go ahead and write the dummy flat .sch files. Does anyone know? I have a 700 net flat schematic I'm working on. Gnetlist takes about 4.5

gEDA-user: gnetlist speed

2003-12-31 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:19:04PM -0500, John Doty wrote: If gnetlist can handle very large flat schematics without slowing down painfully, I'll go ahead and write the dummy flat .sch files. Does anyone know? I have a 700 net flat schematic I'm working on. Gnetlist takes about 4.5

Re: gEDA-user: gschem problem list

2004-01-04 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:57:03PM -0500, EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Is there a list of known problems or bugs in gSCHEM? Be nice to know if a bug has already been found before reporting it. There is a bug database available from http://www.geda.seul.org -Dan --

Re: gEDA-user: changing thermal size in PCB

2004-01-06 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:56:41PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: ok I give up. how does one change the width of the thermal spokes in PCB? You don't. The finger width is the same as the actual thickness of the pad's copper (i.e. (paddiam - drilldiam)/2). ack! I suppose that prevents stubby

Re: gEDA-user: iverilog systemC

2004-01-07 Thread Dan McMahill
have you also recompiled iverilog after the gcc upgrade? I'm not sure if you can use a 3.2.3 compiled shared object with a 2.95.3 compiled program. -Dan On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:04:35AM +, michel.agoyan wrote: Hi, First, happy new year ! Few months ago, I have written a simple bus

Re: gEDA-user: PCB cvs error /bin/sh: line 1: tgif: command not found

2004-01-11 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: I was trying to build todays CVS of PCB but I get this error: XENVIRONMENT=./Xdefaults.tgif tgif -print -color -eps pad.obj /bin/sh: line 1: tgif: command not found make: *** [pad.eps] Error 127 Can you point me in the right

gEDA-user: setting PCB background color

2004-02-03 Thread Dan McMahill
I'm trying to figure out how to change the background color of the main drawing area in PCB. For some reason, its showing up as black (or some dark color) and I'm having troubles seeing the traces and pads now. I've looked through the app-defaults file but can't seem to find the right one.

Re: gEDA-user: setting PCB background color

2004-02-03 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:49:40PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: I've looked through the app-defaults file but can't seem to find the right one. Pcb.masterForm*output*background:gray95 hmm. Doesn't seem to do much. http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/pcb_white.png http://www

Re: gEDA-user: footprint for 1.27 mm spacing

2004-02-03 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:54:02PM -0800, David Koski wrote: I am new to gschem/pcb. What footprint is used for 1.27mm spacing smt chips? I see no footprint examples or docs for it. Thats 50 mils where I come from ;) I assume you mean the SOIC family? See

Re: gEDA-user: setting PCB background color

2004-02-04 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:57:36PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Found it, it was a naive assumption on the part of the original programmer. *Now* Pcb.masterForm*output*background sets the board background. (cvs update src/draw.c if appropriate) Thanks! I haven't found any of my X

Re: gEDA-user: footprint for 1.27 mm spacing

2004-02-04 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:54:44PM -0800, David Koski wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:40:53 -0500 Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:54:02PM -0800, David Koski wrote: I am new to gschem/pcb. What footprint is used for 1.27mm spacing smt chips? I see

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-0.15 on MacOS 10.3 (Panther)

2004-02-06 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:45:48PM -0500, John Doty wrote: Installing gerbv-0.15 on MacOS 10.3 (Panther): I'm using the following from Fink 0.6.2 (http://fink.sourceforge.net/): libpng3 1.2.5-4 gdk-pixbuf0.18.0-2 The main problem is that gerbv doesn't look for libpng in

Re: gEDA-user: strange holes in PCB

2004-02-12 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:50:13AM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: I just looked at ViewCVS and saw that change.c and print.c were changed since my last update (3 days ago), so I updated and tried it. Now both ps and gerber output are fine. yep. Harry fixed that a day or two ago. It was a

gEDA-user: pcb-20040215 snapshot

2004-02-15 Thread Dan McMahill
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new PCB development snapshot. pcb-20040215 is the 3rd development snapshot release since moving to SourceForge. This snapshot represents a big step forward in PCB. Anyone following the CVS changes over the last month will have noticed a very

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA: pcb-20040215 snapshot

2004-02-15 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new PCB development snapshot. pcb-20040215 . NetBSD package has been updated. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/cad/pcb-current/README.html may take a day

gEDA-user: patch for last PCB snapshot on sourceforge

2004-02-29 Thread Dan McMahill
On the patches section of the PCB sourceforge project page, there is a patch from harry which addresses the bug found by David Koski regarding creating elements. -Dan Mail from harry eaton about elements follows: - David, You found a bug! Converting Buffer contents to elements

Re: gEDA-user: GDSII2asci

2004-03-02 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:10:35AM +0100, Peter Kaiser wrote: Hi, does anyone know a program that converts GDSII to asci and backwards? Try http://www.buchanan1.net/stream_utils.shtml I've not used it though. There is also a GDSII reader at http://home.netcom.com/~serbanp/ and a GDSII

Re: gEDA-user: stdin:18: m4: Bad expression in eval: (3* - /2)/100,

2004-03-13 Thread Dan McMahill
just don't send me ?anything too proprietary. I hope to enter it in the Circuit Cellar AVR contest, but if you win with it, more power to you. ?:-) it turns out I haven't even needed to view the schematic. I was mislead by a bad assumption on my part earlier. I thought the grep

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist: ERROR: Unbound variable: primitive-fork

2004-04-12 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Berni Joss wrote: Thank your for your support in helping on this issue. On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:14:04AM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: Here's something to try. Run guile and type: primitive-fork at the guile prompt. On my machine

Re: gEDA-user: solder masks, etc.

2004-05-12 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:40:43AM -0700, David Koski wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 20:28:40 -0400 Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:42:17PM -0700, David Koski wrote: Hello, In the following file: http://kosmosisland.com/island/david/test_1.pcb

Re: gEDA-user: printing

2004-05-14 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:44:00PM -0700, David Koski wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:00:32 -0400 DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increasing the resolution when importing to gimp moves it off page to the right. As you increase the resolution, you have to increase the pixel sizes

Re: gEDA-user: geda vs. SPARC

2004-05-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:20:31PM +0200, Albert Lederer wrote: Compiling Geda on Solaris can be a nightmare, especially when you're trying to find all the package dependencies. Linux systems take a lot of packages for granted, and they may not be present on Solaris systems. Maybe we

Re: gEDA-user: DRC vs shorted nets?

2004-05-02 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:33:57PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:44, harry eaton wrote: Ok, but it would be nice if something gave the location of the short. Change color, or X/Y points. Yes, but as I point out, that is a very hard problem [jg]It is a hard

Re: gEDA-user: geda vs. SPARC

2004-04-26 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:00:24PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 26, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Levente KOVACS wrote: I try to build gEDA on a machine (namely Sun ULTRA1)with SPARC architecture. I get libgeda compiled, but gschem and geda does not. Does anyone have experience with it? I use gcc3,

Re: gEDA-user: X-Y placement files

2004-04-26 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:40:37PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:40:49PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: Is PCB capable of creating X-Y placement files for pick and place? The format seems pretty simple. Thanks, Matt Hi Matt, I have mostly implemented

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem Segment Fault

2004-05-17 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:12:02PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I did not see my reply. Sorry if this is a duplicate. /usr/local/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc: right after these couple of lines, ; Contains all paths needed for all programs (define gedadata (getenv GEDADATA)) (define

gEDA-user: pcb-20040530 snapshot

2004-05-31 Thread Dan McMahill
I'm pleased to announce that there is a new PCB snapshot available on the sourceforge project page. As with the other snapshots, this release represents a work in progress. It is provided to make it easier for users who do not use CVS for accessing the latest sources. See http://pcb.sf.net for

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20040530 snapshot

2004-06-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:14:05PM -0700, David Koski wrote: Thanks Dan! On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:01:14 -0400 Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Ordering is preserved when writing output files so that diff may be effectively used on pcb files. Does that mean

Re: gEDA-user: PCB fonts?

2004-06-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:28:06PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: Hey folks. I usually put my email address on a PCB layout, but the default font that comes with PCB doesn't have an '@'. Is there a low-pain way to add that symbol to the default font? How was the default font generated in

Re: gEDA-user: For the debian experts - trying to compile PCB

2004-06-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:01:22PM +, Xtian Xultz wrote: Hello folks! I am new to debian, I am using a distro called Kurumin based on Knoppix that is based on Debian :D I am trying to compile PCB 20040530 but it gives me a lt of errors like gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O2

Re: gEDA-user: PCB vs. dead polygon

2004-06-09 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:36:47AM +0200, Levente KOVACS wrote: Hi all, I have a question about dead polygons. I call dead polygon, which is not connected to any net. How can I remove them? They are not needed, just incrase the capacity. Furthermore, if I do lookup connection to object,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB ordering data file

2004-06-10 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:51:07PM +, Karel Kulhav? wrote: Hello I am using CVS and every time I do a minor change, the data file is completely different. It looks like the items get ordered in different order. Would it be difficult to implement that after a minor change in the layout,

Re: gEDA-user: TQFP footprints for pcb?

2004-06-10 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:13:33PM -0500, Randall Nortman wrote: I apologize if asking questions related to pcb, which is not technically part of gEDA, is inappropriate for this list. It just seems to me that a lot of pcb-related discussion seems to happen here. (More even than on the actual

gEDA-user: classroom use of gEDA

2004-06-11 Thread Dan McMahill
Is anyone out there using gEDA, gnucap, or PCB in a classroom environment? I'd like to hear about it if you are. -Dan --

Re: gEDA-user: Multi pin description

2004-06-29 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:10:37AM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: On Monday, 28 June 2004 21:32, Karel Kulhav? wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:26:44AM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: Is it possible to use XCircuit together with gEDA PCB? One can use XCircuit as a schematic capture and netlist

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Install

2004-07-01 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:00:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have some questions about my pcb install. The build completes without any errors but as far as I can tell, it did not build everything. Not all of the part libraries, examples, and docs are being built. The pcb

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Install

2004-07-03 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:00:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have some questions about my pcb install. The build completes without any errors but as far as I can tell, it did not build everything. Not all of the part libraries, examples, and docs are being built. The pcb

gEDA-user: static timing analysis tool?

2004-07-11 Thread Dan McMahill
Anyone know of a static timing analysis tool thats available as free software? -Dan --

Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!

2004-08-23 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:14:09PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: On Aug 22, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: Where can I buy one piece of this one in Prague? I would be genuinely interested :) You may or may not be able to. I don't know. I know I can get them from

Re: gEDA-user: Compiling MMI (electromagnetic simulator)

2004-08-23 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:13:34PM +, Karel Kulhav? wrote: Hello MMI promises to compute distributed paramteres of copper strips on PCB. looks neat once it can be built. I've started and found some issues with the build system. Haven't fixed them all yet... I am lured by an idea of

Re: gEDA-user: Compiling MMI (electromagnetic simulator)

2004-08-24 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:13:34PM +, Karel Kulhav? wrote: Hello MMI promises to compute distributed paramteres of copper strips on PCB. I chewed throught the latex2html stumbling block and hit another one -- mmi (aka tnt - I don't know why there is a naming schizophreny) installed

Re: gEDA-user: Printing from PCB from commandline

2004-08-26 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:41:49AM +, Karel Kulhav? wrote: Hello I have read PCB manpage and realized it's possible to define several UNIX commands that are executed at various occassions. However didn't find any place where PCB commands could be specified to be executed. I would like

Re: gEDA-user: Printing from PCB from commandline

2004-08-26 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:41:49AM +, Karel Kulhav? wrote: Hello I have read PCB manpage and realized it's possible to define several UNIX commands that are executed at various occassions. However didn't find any place

Re: gEDA-user: shorted net warning

2004-08-29 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:53:46PM -0700, John Luciani wrote: I am using PCB version 1.99p and get the following warnings after I choose Connects-optimize rats-nest 2: WARNING!! net unnamed_net6 is shorted to net unnamed_net3 3: WARNING!! net unnamed_net3 is shorted to net unnamed_net6

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA: pcb-20040903 snapshot

2004-09-03 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:18:35PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: I am pleased to announce that a new pcb snapshot is available. pcb-20040903 can be found on the PCB sourceforge site, http://pcb.sf.net. Summary of changes in pcb-20040903

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Segmentation Fault

2004-09-04 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:08:50PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Is there a log file or debug mode that I can use to help find this problem? Run it under gdb: $ gdb pcb ... make that $ pcb -gdb pcb is actually a wrapper script which sets some environment variables and then calls the

Re: gEDA-user: PCB libraries

2004-09-06 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Andreas Platschek wrote: Am Montag, 6. September 2004 18:23 schrieb Stephen Meier: Could you be a bit more specific? When you activate the library window (menu - window - library) do you see a list of directories in the left window and a list of

Re: gEDA-user: PCB libraries

2004-09-07 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:52:59PM +0200, Andreas Platschek wrote: Am Montag, 6. September 2004 18:24 schrieb Stephen Meier: Where is PCB installed in your directory structure? Are all the permissions along the path coducive to non root users? Steve Meier Andreas Platschek wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: Segmentation Fault

2004-09-09 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:42:38PM -0700, John Luciani wrote: I have found a condition that causes PCB to Segment fault. I created an element that has a mounting hole but I forgot to change bit 3 in the pin flag. The PCB layout below contains the element with the incorrect pin flag.

Re: gEDA-user: Summary of available footprints?

2004-09-23 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:21:31PM -0500, Mark Rages wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Mark Rages wrote: Hi all, Is there a summary of the avaiable pcb footprints in any of the gEDA docs? In particular, I'm looking for SMA (the diode footprint, not the RF

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog Release 0.8

2004-10-14 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:08:18AM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some of you have already noticed that Icarus Verilog 0.8 has appeared on the FTP site. Start from the Icarus Verilog home page: http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog and follow the

Re: gEDA-user: Question about embedded components in gEDA/

2004-09-28 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:59:54PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: Embedded components aren't used too much (I think), so I would be willing to change this behavior if it would make your life easier. I always embed the title block so I get expansion of CVS keywords like $Id$. Other than

Re: gEDA-user: General ground/power plane design questions

2004-10-20 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:07:48AM -0700, Steve Meier wrote: First, you should always have a low pass filter which is well bellow 1/2 the sampling frequency just before your a/d converter. Make that a band limiting filter whose bandwidth is less than 1/2 the sampling frequency. There is no

Re: gEDA-user: PCB footprints?

2004-10-24 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:20:47PM -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote: Hi Guys (and any Gals who are lurking out there) -- This may be in the FAQ (although I didn't find it in the ten seconds that I took to Google around), so please tell me to RTFM if it is. I would like to know all the names of

Re: gEDA-user: building under Cygwin

2004-10-27 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:48:25PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: and setting MINGW to yes. You might have to fudge with the configure scripts to get the right PATHSEP and OTHERPATHSEP set (since cygwin is more unix like than win32 like). for gtk/glib parts, there is G_DIR_SEPARATOR if you're

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: how to clear soldermask from entire footprint

2004-11-07 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:42:12PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Areas the autorouter shouldn't put traces through. I'd expand that to autorouter or human router. What's the reason for such areas? Mounting brackets, component contact, EMI, isolation, etc. For example, on my furnace

Re: gEDA-user: Do it yourself PCB's via heat toner transfer.

2004-11-07 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:25:23AM -0500, Syed Faisal Akber wrote: As far as the heat transfer stuff goes, a friend of mine tried out many scenarios. 1 - Special Transfer paper -- Some of the paper that didn't have toner on it got stuck to the copper clad. 2 - Regular what 20# paper -- Same

Re: gEDA-user: Kicad

2004-11-11 Thread Dan McMahill
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:44:19PM +0200, Florian Steiper wrote: Hello Did anybody try/heard of Kicad ? I stumbled across the program at OpenCollector and it seems to be doing pretty much the same as the Geda suite, only thing is that all the documentation is in french :) Here is the

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA: PCB: Throw the Bugzilla out of window

2004-11-19 Thread Dan McMahill
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:35:11PM -0500, Daniel Nilsson wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:12:58PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:25:07PM +, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Bugzilla appears to be a shit to me. Responds to an upload of 4MB attachment with invalid filename

Re: gEDA-user: Any DIY USB Scope project on schedule? Or some recommmendation?

2004-11-23 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:58PM -0800, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: It's a handy formula to have -- however, I'm curious though: where does the factor of 0.35 come from? from a 1st order system. BW (Hz) = 1/(2*pi*tau), step response = 1 - exp(-t/tau). Time to 10% is t10 = -tau*log(0.9),

Re: gEDA-user: drill size editting in PCB

2004-12-06 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:32:01PM +0100, Shahab Sanjari wrote: Dear list, is there a possibility to list all different drill diameters (pads / vias) and edit them after layout job is done, in order to reduce them to those standard values that the board-house likes? This reduces

Re: gEDA-user: Compiling MMI (electromagnetic simulator)

2004-12-13 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:19:08PM +, Daniel Nilsson wrote: Karel Kulhavy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:29:10AM -0500, Daniel Nilsson wrote: [...] Here's a good collection of links (including fastcap): http://www.fastfieldsolvers.com/links.htm What

Re: gEDA-user: Compiling MMI (electromagnetic simulator)

2004-12-14 Thread Dan McMahill
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:56:37PM -0500, Daniel Nilsson wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:21:28AM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: Agreed, you might care about these aspects. What I wanted to point out it that there are were few real world problem where you actually can use the trace capacitance

Re: gEDA-user: OT: need fine (5 to 10 mils) solder

2004-12-13 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:08:54PM -0800, David Koski wrote: I have some boards to produce that have components with about a 9 mil pad spacing and my 15 mil solder is a little big. After searching on line I gave up in frustration trying to find an online store that sells ultra fine solder

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD .isos available

2004-12-30 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:00:28PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Doty wrote: |Then, burn it to a CD and use the CD to |install the entire gEDA Suite on any (Linux) computer you wish. | | | Well, not just any Linux computer. Only Intel

Re: gEDA-user: Dummy elements in gschem

2005-01-03 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:33PM +, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Hello I have a shielding box in PCB as an element (because the silk lines and holes have to be kept in precise distances). Every time I run gsch2pcb, the box gets removed. What is the ideologically correct solution to this?

Re: gEDA-user: solder strip

2005-01-05 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:20:06PM +, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Why don't you make a symbol for gschem that represents the shield. Give it one pin. In the schematic connect that one pin to ground. I do this all the time to make holes for ground clips (to clip my oscilloscope probe ground

Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

2005-01-05 Thread Dan McMahill
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:07:31PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: How is this done in Orcad? In Eagle? In other tools? Since it's an internals problem, and not a user interface problem, we have no way of knowing. In PCB you cannot draw a rectangle of missing soldermask. Cna

Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Dan McMahill
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:15:40PM -0500, Daniel Nilsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:30:51AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 8, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote: 2. The biggest reason to not use XML is that we already have a working file format with associated file reading

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