On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 13:26 -0700, Joerg wrote: > Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just for the record: I have a lot of CAD experience but gschem is also > very new to me so I can only tell you what's customary. I am sure gschem > can do all this but for now someone else would have to explain how. > > > > I'm new to the electronic circuit design world and just went through > > the gschem and pcb tutorial on seul.org. In my case, however, the > > output is not a PCB, but a terminal strip using DIN rail components; > > e.g. connector blocks from Phoenix Contact > > (http://www.phoenixcontact.ca/) > > > > My dilemma is: for design purposes I'd like to create a nice simple > > circuit diagram of the kind created by pschem; however, for actually > > building the device I need a second diagram showing the terminal blocks > > and connections between them. I'm leery of maintaining two separate > > diagrams and would like to have the second generated semi-automatically > > from the first, much like the PCB layout is generated from the schematic. > > > > That is not customary. You normally have three sets of documents: > > a. Bare board docs: These are the Gerber, fab instructions etc.
The OP was asking about schematics for industrial cabinet wiring, as far as I could tell. DIN rail, contactors etc... There are some useful symbols for power systems designed by Jacek Plucinski here: http://jacek-tools.110mb.com/ There isn't any automated layout tool in gEDA designed for cabinet wiring with physical objects. (I haven't heard of any commercially either, but that doesn't mean there aren't any). [snip] > If you really want to do it (and I also have, showing fiber-optic lines > on a board that were not part of the electronics) you could draw those > lines on a secondary layer. CAD systems and probably also gschem have > several drafting layers. Layers for nets, busses, pins, symbols, plus > usually some for text and graphics. Use one that is not going to show up > in the netlist and draw your hookup wiring there. Gschem doesn't have layers. It does have different style classes for line colours, but nothing like Autocad etc. Best wishes, > -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
