I placed write-ups of a couple of things that were discussed at the last Freedog on my website.
Parts Storage ------------- A write-up containing some SMD part storage ideas is at http://www.luciani.org/no-place-to-go/doc/storage-ideas.pdf I built some storage trays that hold low cost tin-plated steel cans that are available from McMaster Carr. The document contains pictures and dimensioned drawings for trays that hold 1 1/2" and 2 3/8" diameter cans. BOM Creation ------------ I created a BOM script that outputs a file containing component group records. Each record contains the common component attributes and a list of refdes's that share those atrributes. The output of the BOM script can be passed to a bom2tex script which creates a pdfLaTeX file. I also have a bom2order script which creates a component order from multiple boms (and an order2tex script to create a pdfLaTeX file). After I add the embedded datasheet option to the bom2tex script I will release the bom script, bom2tex, bom2order and order2tex. The bom script code documentation is at http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/doc/bom_6.pdf Component Server (compsrv) -------------------------- Brief discussion of a component server that will return various component attributes through a socket connection. The current prototype only returns datasheet filenames. A future version will return other component attributes (such as footprint names, vendor data) and have a Postgres interface. The compsrv code documentation is at http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/doc/compsrv.pdf (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
