On 04/08/07 17:00:14, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > While moving my whole board layout I somehow managed to get the > > rectangle sourrunding the board becomming displaced to the grid. It > > used to be exactly on the grid of .25mm but now I cant get it onto > > the grid any more. > > Sometimes that happens when (1) you're mixing metric and english > grids, or (2) you accidentally pick it up (or put it down) from a > pad-snap instead of a grid point. Disable snap-to-pad when moving the > whole board. > > To fix it, you'll need snap-to-pad ON. Select the whole board again, > and pick it up from the outline's endpoints (making sure you snap to > those), then put it down on a grid point. > > > Also I wonder what the units are for the gerber drill hole cnc file? > > Can I set the units for that somewhere? > > Inch, no. You can edit src/hid/gerber/gerber.c if you really need > metric.
Is inch the standard for gerber fabrication? My friends CNC machine only does metric. > > > Is there a sparse display buffer option, so that when I have the > > whole bord in the copy buffer pcb doesn't draw the outline of all > > parts and therefor moves the buffer quicker? > > No. You could try the lesstif gui, it has a different draw-board > method and, while not always faster, sometimes has a better response > time. So lesstif gui is quite different to gtk? Which one is recommended? Something I forgot: While soldering my first board today I noticed that the caption of smd resistors (8050) have their caption above the component. Having turned one of them 180 degrees and move them side by side I ended up having the caption of the other one within the outline. That can easyly lead to missplaced components. Is there a way to make the caption start within the outline of the component? With caps 8050 is all fine. Thanks for the quick answers Lynx _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
