Re: gEDA-user: Ngspice for Ubuntu
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 23:49 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have geda installed. I used apt-get install geda. Then pcb, gerbv, gtkwave, verilog, etc. I just can not get ngspice to work and I have not found gsch2pcb. ngspice has some licensing issues which means it isn't in Debian / Ubuntu. You may have to build from sources. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Ngspice for Ubuntu
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:08:12 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Success! After I got some of the other -dev packages installed, configure complained of missing libXaw! Before that, even though I configured with --with-x, configure did not complain. Some of the configure scripts involved with building geda from source do not test for the *.h files. If you just have the runtime package installed configure is happy but the build will fail somewhere down the road. I got into the habit of always installing the dev-package of whatever configure complains about. ---(kaimartin)--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Newbie questions
John Coppens schrieb: 1. How can I highlight a complete net in gschem? I have mostly stuff like http://bildrian.de/n/b/c3c0ce767ca5d198.png this - when I want to find out where exactly PA2 goes, I have to manually follow each piece of network, which is kind of annoying. According to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/12275 it's not yet possible Oh, this is quite unfortunate, since that would be an interesting feature. Since the article you quoted was posted one year ago I believe that there are no attempts on implementing that either, are there? 2. I love the keyboard shortcuts, they make design really efficient when you got used to. One thing that annoys me, however, is that nets are started with n, but when you're finished, you have to hit Escape. This is a long way from the n. Can I remap it so that finishing networks can be done with, say b? Right click will stop the current net, and left-click will restart the net (i.e. gschem remains in 'net' mode) What I meant was the following: You draw a net, which is quite long and has many corners. In the last step you misclick. Then you have to right-click, Ctrl-Z, left click the last point, left click the correct point, right click again. It would be nice if, after the misclick you'd hit, for example b which would revert the last network leg and still stay in network drawing mode (e.g. that you do not have to left click the last point again). I guess this isn't possible then? 4. When moving vertecies which are connected to two networks (e.g. a corner somewhere), how can it be done that *both* endpoints of the net in question are moved? Currently when I move a point it first moves the vertex from the first part, disconnecting the network. Then I have to manually also pull the second one there. If you drag the center (not the endpoints) of a segment, it'll move entirely (remaining connected to the net). I'm not sure what you mean... This is true. However, suppose I have the following constellation: http://bildrian.de/n/b/975ae00f165bc4ee.png Now I'm moving the rectifier to the lower left. No matter what legs I select together with the rectifier, I'll always end up having to fix one or two vertices, in this case two: http://bildrian.de/n/b/84c98f67a293d55d.png Therefore it'd be nice if the vertices of both leg nets could be moved simultaniously. I don't see any point on why it would make sense to rip the network apart upon movement of a vertex. Regards, Johannes ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
gEDA-user: more insanity
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/smd-challenge/insanity_II.jpg I kinda mangled the pads a little, but it won't matter - I can still solder them. The parts are 3x 0.5mm pitch CSP, some 0201 discretes, and an 0402 LED. The big pins are 0.1 apart. Mostly 6/6 rules (some 5 mil traces), with 13 mil holes (the big ones will get drilled out to 26 mil). The etch was done with photomasks instead of toner transfer, see [1] for details. [1] http://www.delorie.com/pcb/inkjet/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Newbie questions
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:04:52 +0200 Johannes Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Coppens schrieb: 1. How can I highlight a complete net in gschem? I have mostly stuff like http://bildrian.de/n/b/c3c0ce767ca5d198.png this - when I want to find out where exactly PA2 goes, I have to manually follow each piece of network, which is kind of annoying. According to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/12275 it's not yet possible Oh, this is quite unfortunate, since that would be an interesting feature. Since the article you quoted was posted one year ago I believe that there are no attempts on implementing that either, are there? Not that I'm aware of 2. I love the keyboard shortcuts, they make design really efficient when you got used to. One thing that annoys me, however, is that nets are started with n, but when you're finished, you have to hit Escape. This is a long way from the n. Can I remap it so that finishing networks can be done with, say b? Right click will stop the current net, and left-click will restart the net (i.e. gschem remains in 'net' mode) What I meant was the following: You draw a net, which is quite long and has many corners. In the last step you misclick. Then you have to right-click, Ctrl-Z, left click the last point, left click the correct point, right click again. It would be nice if, after the misclick you'd hit, for example b which would revert the last network leg and still stay in network drawing mode (e.g. that you do not have to left click the last point again). I guess this isn't possible then? Why? If you draw a net, Ctrl-Z immediately deletes to the previous clicked point. No strange extra clicks? 4. When moving vertecies which are connected to two networks (e.g. a corner somewhere), how can it be done that *both* endpoints of the net in question are moved? Currently when I move a point it first moves the vertex from the first part, disconnecting the network. Then I have to manually also pull the second one there. If you drag the center (not the endpoints) of a segment, it'll move entirely (remaining connected to the net). I'm not sure what you mean... This is true. However, suppose I have the following constellation: http://bildrian.de/n/b/975ae00f165bc4ee.png Now I'm moving the rectifier to the lower left. No matter what legs I select together with the rectifier, I'll always end up having to fix one or two vertices, in this case two: http://bildrian.de/n/b/84c98f67a293d55d.png Therefore it'd be nice if the vertices of both leg nets could be moved simultaniously. I don't see any point on why it would make sense to rip the network apart upon movement of a vertex. Make a selection which includes the net lines + the rectifier and you can move them all together. Of course there will be situations where you will have to touch up some nodes, particularly if you want to move diagonally. But even that, you can do with two different selections. John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
