-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ryan
> 5) A way to autonumber in DIP order for making pins on symbols. I've seen > things about a new autonumber text dialog that might do the trick, but it > hasn't made its way into my version of gschem yet. The new autonumber code should be able to this, but I'm certain I've also done this with the old dialog. Just autonumber the "pinnumber" and "pinseq" attributes and find the correct order. > 7) an option to antialias graphics (or at least text). this is especially > important when trying to read things when zoomed very far out I've made a patch a while ago that converted GSchem to use libcairo for drawing. This means you get hardware accelerated antialiased graphics and also helps with the refresh problem you mentioned. It would still need a lot of work before it would be useful but it will show you where to start if you're interested. There was a long thread about this subject on this mailing list. It should also give you an impression of the chain reaction that can be triggered by such a change :) > 10) get rid of the title-border thing when you create a blank schematic - > it's a hack! It shouldn't be a symbol, it should be added by software at > print time. This would also facilitate a "shrink to page" option for > printing large schematics on a single page but retaining the title box at the > size of the paper. I always delete the box as the first step upon opening > gschem; it's especially annoying when you're trying to make a new symbol > (something I do often...). I was thinking about doing something like this myself. I also always delete the default border - it's too small for most of my schematics. Having a border from the beginning also makes editing the schematics harder. I often select and/or move the border instead of some other object. If you would autogenerate the border you could also add "A B C ..." and "1 2 3 ..." coordinates and then generate a list of components together with coordinates. With large schematics printed on paper this really helps when you have to find one resistor by it's refnum. > 12) ability to have symbols with a different number of pins than the physical > device they represent. Example: the ADXL321 acceleromter from Analog Devices > has nearly all its pins duplicated a bunch of times, but for some inane > reason you need to connect all of them. I'd like the symbol to have one > "ground" pin and one "power" pin, but when gsch2pcb converts it to a netlist > for the PCB program, the net containing the symbol's ground pin is the same > net as all the ground pins on the physical device. Perhaps this should be a > PCB part or footprint datum rather than something in the gschem symbol? > Better example: ZXMN2A02X8 I've been using the following solution for this problem: In the GSchem symbol I only have one pin for each group of pins that have the same function. Then in the PCB symbol I mark all pins with the same function with the number of the one pin in the GSchem symbol. PCB seems to understand that this means that they should all be connected together and correctly displays the rats. Best regards Tomaz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFgR/IsAlAlRhL9q8RAkdrAKCCOkUdsxIy9VNl6VPXiOIIXowioQCfeoQG e2lYod4nmsgqQRIxKbudJdg= =jVDV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
