On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:08:55PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > > - The color setting seems to affect only the GUI. I would like to > > have the grey style in printouts (eps, included in latex, so it can > > be printed along with the description and the schematics, resulting > > in a small book) > > Maybe you could use the "image in the background" feature of pcb.
You mean the method described in http://www.delorie.com/pcb/bg-image.html? That was also my first attempt. But it seems to work only for the GUI, no image on printout. > If the grey image was > located carefully to align with a grid you could then snap footprints > corresponding to connected places onto the breadboard image. > > That would still leave all the interconnectivity of the breadboard undone > though. > to get a correct netlist, you would need to add that in a copper layer. Maybe that's not as bad as it sounds. Guess, I'll have to route the traces manually anyway, since "footprints" on a breadboard are much more flexible than in usual designs. For example, a resistor can span anything from 100mil to 1000mil in any angle :-) > > - The parts of the breadboard traces which are actually used by the > > circuit should be black instead of grey > > some black and some grey is beyond pcb's abilities at the moment -- would > be a u-code-it project, or would just be done manually. With the grey part being only a drawing, the routed traces on the component side would overlap the grey drawing and give exactly the desired effect (i think) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user