On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:05:17 +0200, Juergen Harms wrote: > Problems: > - I had quite frequent problems adding points to a polygon - but no > serious problem, saving and re-starting pcb always helped
can you be a bit more specific on how to reproduce the problems? > - There is no way to have non-copper holes (even adding 0x08 to the > flags does not help) - forget it The flag "hole" will produce a metal less hole. Example: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/kai_martin_knaak/footprints/mechanical/hole_m3.fp > - Silkscreen text: this is the only problem I really regret. The text > generated is so fat and clumsy, that it becomes more or less unreadable > in small fonts. On the quit small pcb I made, I ended up refraining from > using text. There is a parameter min-silk which controls the minimum width of lines on silk. If you use the GTK-GUI: File - Preferences - Sizes - Design_Rule_checking - minimum_silk_width You can set the default value of the parameter in $HOME/.pcb/preferences . > - Library configuration: I tried to use File->Preferences->Library to > add my own libraries - did not succeed, needed to import via > buffer-import. This works over here. Maybe a typo? You need to restart pcb to make changes effective. > 3. Wishes > > - Be able to export directly to Gerber Menu "file - export_layout" should present you a list of buttons with gerber on second place. > - I presently export the .pcb > files to a windows system and use the GC-Preview tool from ... You mean, GC-Preview can read *.pcb files? > - Avoid getting non-significant warning messages when you do a Design > Rule Check (as it happens with mount-holes, where you get 2 messages > each that the ring is too small). This is a known problem. DRC is one of the not so shiny areas of pcb and even more so in gschem. > How about adding a flag to the element > description that makes DRC skip the check of that element? would be a > somewhat general solution. sounds good to me. > - Be more flexible with paths wher pcb-generated output goes - for > instance for placing the gerber files This confuses me. I got the impression you missed the gerber export feature... You can add a prefix to the filename when exporting. However, this is not remembered over sessions. > through to the ultimate test of sending the .gwk file to the layout > manufacturer. I usually send the *.gbr files and the *cnc files zipped together in a single *.zip. My preferred fab is basista. pcb-pool and others have also been reportetd to work without problems. You may search the archive of this mailing list. Welcome to the club of pcb users! ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
