[kicad-users] Re: Completely depressing !

2010-02-10 Thread giordano.george
There's no substitute for process. Where I work, the rule is that 2 sets of eyes check every schematic symbol. Just because the symbol has a pin labeled reset and it's on pin 1 doesn't mean that the datasheet agrees with the symbol. Also, two sets of eyes are required to check every package

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Completely depressing !

2010-02-10 Thread Robert
I have developed a formal method of checking designs. It's very tedious, but providing you can stay awake and don't skip things you're certain are correct it seems to be pretty good at finding problems. You also have to stay calm when you get yet another automated telephone call

Sv: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Completely depressing !

2010-02-10 Thread Anders Gustafsson
Yes, please! - Anders Gustafsson Engineer, CNE6, ASE Pedago, The Aaland Islands (N60 E20) www.pedago.fi phone +358 18 12060 mobile +358 40506 7099 fax +358 18 14060 Robert birmingham_spi...@gmx.net 2010-02-10 19:50 If anyone is interested I'll upload the necessary file to Yahoo

RE: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Completely depressing !

2010-02-10 Thread Stephrac74
I’m usually a very consciencious guy and very formatted with processes for RD. This comes from big companies where I worked. However, now I’m working alone and that’s not easy to find a second eyes pair ! However with time we can achieve the “good at first time” As I was in a hurry for

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Completely depressing !

2010-02-10 Thread Robert
Just to let you know I'm preparing some instructions for my own formal method which I will upload in the next few days. I'm trying to write them so they could be used by a beginner rather than just slapping a file on the server and leaving it for people to figure out for themselves, so it

[kicad-users] How to force update of schematic file when changing part in library?

2010-02-10 Thread keeneybrian
When I make a change to a part in a library that's already been placed in the schematic, I can't seem to get the part properties to be updated in the schematic (and more importantly the netlist), even when I clear the cache. In browsing the .sch file with notepad, the problem seems to be that

[kicad-users] EEschema printing error-- Net names over power symbols appear as -----

2010-02-10 Thread keeneybrian
When I print on my hp color laser printer the net names over the power symbols appear as little lines, like . It doesn't do it on my BW HP color laser printer, but it's much less easy to read overall. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Brian Keeney