gEDA-user: gcshem to magic

2010-08-01 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I have some analog circuits in gschem that I want to layout in the magic vlsi tool. Is there a good way to go from gschem to magic? For example it would be nice to generate transistors automatically (give w, l, and m) and then add port names for S,D,G,B. Likewise it would be nice

gEDA-user: pcb: back, bottom, solder, or what?

2010-08-01 Thread kai-martin knaak
There seems to be some indifference in pcb on how to call the layers. Mostly, it is top/bottom, sometimes it is component/solder and the gerber file names use front/back. From teaching geda to complete newbies I know, that this indifference adds to the confusion. Is there a reason not to

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: back, bottom, solder, or what?

2010-08-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Given that most of my soldering happens on the component layer, I'm open to new opinions :-) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: back, bottom, solder, or what?

2010-08-01 Thread Ormund Williams
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:15 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: There seems to be some indifference in pcb on how to call the layers. Mostly, it is top/bottom, sometimes it is component/solder and the gerber file names use front/back. From teaching geda to complete newbies I know, that this

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: back, bottom, solder, or what?

2010-08-01 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM, kai-martin knaak [1]...@familieknaak.de wrote: There seems to be some indifference in pcb on how to call the layers. Mostly, it is top/bottom, sometimes it is component/solder and the gerber file names use front/back. There is yet

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: back, bottom, solder, or what?

2010-08-01 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:15:06AM +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: There seems to be some indifference in pcb on how to call the layers. Mostly, it is top/bottom, sometimes it is component/solder and the gerber file names use front/back. From teaching geda to complete newbies I know, that

Re: gEDA-user: gcshem to magic

2010-08-01 Thread John Doty
On Aug 1, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: I have some analog circuits in gschem that I want to layout in the magic vlsi tool. Is there a good way to go from gschem to magic? For example it would be nice to generate transistors automatically (give w, l, and m) and then