Re: [kicad-users] Re: Feedback

2010-04-14 Thread Andy Eskelson
You can do this to some extent with Kicad. Create a module, e.g. called Pad1 add one pad to it and set the shape to whatever you want. Click the copper and component tick boxes. Reduce the text labels to the minimium and set them to be invis. Don't add any outlines etc, remove the pad number

[kicad-users] Re: Feedback

2010-04-13 Thread James
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Andy Eskelson andyya...@... wrote: I find that the problem with 0 ohm R and such like is that they are a fixed width, I also find it rather awkward to add them to a board, then to the sch and so on. I also prefer to have a sch. to work with. What I

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2010-04-12 Thread Anders Gustafsson
OK. A configurable list then. To help consistency. - 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 Frank bennet...@digis.net 2010-04-11 00:01 What is standard? Seems to be

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Feedback

2010-04-11 Thread Andy Eskelson
I find that the problem with 0 ohm R and such like is that they are a fixed width, I also find it rather awkward to add them to a board, then to the sch and so on. I also prefer to have a sch. to work with. What I do for single sided boards is set the via size to the same as what I use for a

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2010-04-10 Thread Frank
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Anders Gustafsson anders.gustafs...@... wrote: 1. Jumpers Agreed. I use oversized vias for that and although you can create a wire component, such component should be stretchable in increments of 2,54mm to be really useful How about a zero ohm

[kicad-users] Re: Feedback

2010-04-09 Thread James
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert birmingham_spi...@... wrote: I just wanted to feed back some comments from a major appliance manufacturer who recently received some PCBs created by me using Kicad. They described the prototypes as being of excellent quality. The two