Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 18:39 -0600, John Griessen wrote: On 03/04/2011 06:24 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: I thought basing it on svg with layers defined to be each layer in a layout. But SVG is a shape outline format and RS-274X is centerline and width format. A round ended pad in RS-274X

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 05:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: It depends on the primitives used - but I expect it is not too hard either way. SVG does of course support a lot of things which RS-274X cannot though. OK. YOU can make SVG that is easily translatable, but if you had a footprint tool that used it

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Steven Michalske
PCB supports polygons. Filled paths yield a polygon. and PCB can cope with outputting to RS-274X The point is that I wanted something not PCB centric. RS-274X can support polygons as well, it is RS-274D that can't and must be vector filled (painted). But footprint to RS-274X translation is

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi John, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Griessen Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 4:17 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011 On 03/05/2011 05:04 AM,

gEDA-user: Get a pin or net list count

2011-03-05 Thread Oliver King-Smith
Is there a way to get a pin or netlist count for a multi-page schematic in gschem? Oliver ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Get a pin or net list count

2011-03-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: Is there a way to get a pin or netlist count for a multi-page schematic in gschem? You can use Gerbv to count the number of pins and pads. See http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips?s[]=pins[]=count#how_many_pads_are_in_my_layout The number of nets is simply the

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 05.03.2011 um 16:17 schrieb John Griessen: OK. YOU can make SVG that is easily translatable, but if you had a footprint tool that used it because so much content is available from other sources, you might get the outlined content very often and have to convert it to stroked lines.

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 02:41 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: it might be less work to replace or complement the current track drawing stuff with a generic SVG drawing library. Then every layout is also a valid SVG file and can be edited with other applications as well. The tricky part is keeping the connection

Re: gEDA-user: Get a pin or net list count

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 01:24 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Is there a way to get a pin or netlist count for a multi-page schematic in gschem? I'd run the netlist through a python script that counts the pins that are in the form symbolname1-pinname1. But that would give you the pins used by the

Re: gEDA-user: Get a pin or net list count

2011-03-05 Thread John Doty
On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Is there a way to get a pin or netlist count for a multi-page schematic in gschem? Oliver Copy the attached file to wherever your gnetlist back ends go (e.g. /usr/local/share/gEDA/scheme/). Then: gnetlist -g stats -o wherever.txt

Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Steven Michalske
At work we use odb++ valor files. But I would not suggest removing gerber file exports. Every board house understands them. Steve On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:11 AM, John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote: On 03/05/2011 02:41 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: it might be less work to replace or

gEDA-user: RS-274X, etc. (was Google Summer of Code..)

2011-03-05 Thread John Griessen
On 03/05/2011 07:41 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: At work we use odb++ valor files. That sounds like the rumor I heard. odb sounds open. I bet it just sounds open and creates vendor lock in.. Uh... yeah. Like I thought: http://www.artwork.com/odb++/odb++_overview.htm