On Saturday 24 January 2015 10:38:00 Kirk Wallace did opine And Gene did reply: > On 01/23/2015 09:40 PM, Evan Foss wrote: > > I use geda. > > > > http://www.geda-project.org/ > > I use gEDA too. I tried Eagle, but the making of devices is just _too_ > difficult compared to gEDA. Too bad Eagle has become the standard, much > like Windows.
I used eagle to make the pcb for my lathes spindle encoder, but found it difficult to go back and add something I found I needed, like brightness pots for the leds in the slot interrupters. That went a long ways toward reducing the noise output of the encoder module by fine tuning the output duty percentages to be exactly 50%, followed by bending them a few thou to get a good, even 90 degree quadrature. Eagle, to be really useful, needs better short term memory than I have these days. Something like that old old saw about coffee breaks and pollacks. :) Foxworthy I think changed it to Rednecks, but the principle is the same at my age. > I also use Inkscape for documenting system layouts. Making and labeling > blocks is easy, but the connection routing at my skill level is just > running lines, so there is no intelligence behind the connections. Conversely, once you have written a working hal file, I find it is made hugely more understandable if rockhopper is used to convert it to a logic diagram. This makes it very easy to see where you screwed up when some aspect of it isn't quite doing what you expected. Its a valuable troubleshooting and design tool. Just be aware that the resultant printout, when the svg file has been expanded to readable fonts and posterized for dead tree output will fill up the inside face of a 4' wide swinging shop door! > > There is also a LinuxCNC extension to Inkscape for generating g-code: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InkscapeHowto > http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=35&start=420 I've tried that but was never able to master it for something useful. Probably my own fault though. > gEDA has an extension for HAL: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HalSchematicsUsingGschem This I haven't tried. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
