All, I just sent my first gEDA pcb project off to the fab house for a few prototypes. :-)BFG)
Had a few questions, freedfm.com (the second report, after I fixed some errors from the first go-round) said I had a bunch of areas where holes were going to be covered with soldermask. I checked each location, and in every case, it was a via. Obviously, I want soldermask over the via. Was there a flag I forgot to set? Has anyone encountered this before, and if so, what did I do wrong? It's not a show stopper, the tech guy said it should be fine. However, I'd like to prevent the error in the future so that the real errors shine through in all their glory. ;-) Also, my board is 780 mils wide. I have a footprint I made for a CR2032 battery (with pins, horizontal mount). I included a "keepout" circle on the silkscreen layer (ElementArc[]) around the perimeter of the battery. Unfortunately, the circle is wider than the board. Not a big deal because the pins are in the right place and I don't care if the battery hangs over a bit. The problem is, I can't for the life of me figure out how to center the d*mn battery. It's not locked (yes, I googled :-P), and it absolutely won't let me move the footprint across the right edge of the board. Despite the fact that the footprint is hanging over the left edge. I've left-clicked, right-clicked, middle-clicked, shift-clicked, etc. Nothing that I've tried will move it... Any ideas? Last but not least, git. I decided to manage my project files with git and was amazed to see how clean changes made in the GUI (gschem or pcb) related to changes in the text files. Using git and a Makefile for this stuff rocks! It also makes learning a whole lot easier. Not to mention tagging board revisions, generating gerber zip files, and branching for different schematics. No, I haven't tried merging schematics branches yet... thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
