Re: gEDA-user: PCB Realign Grid
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 12:42 +1100, Geoff Swan wrote: I am having some trouble with pcb View - Align Grid. I am trying to use it to align the snap grid to a component pin. However it is not having any effect. I have tried various permutations of adjusting grid size and units - turning snap to pin on and off and anything else that I thought may potentially have an impact. I also tried closing and re-opening and starting a new layout adding a single footprint then trying to realign to that. Perhaps I am misunderstanding how Align Pin is intended to function. cheers, Geoff (I am using the pcjc2 -gl before pours branch with the polygon.c #define adjustment and the latest toporouter.c updates) Never used pcb View - Align Grid. What may be the intended function? My guess: If you realign grid, all other components will become off grid. What I did: Align the new component to the grid, by grabbing its center or a single pin. For aligning a single pin it may be necessary/helpful activating Settings/Orthogonal Moves. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB Realign Grid
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:42:37 +1100, Geoff Swan wrote: I am having some trouble with pcb View - Align Grid. I am trying to use it to align the snap grid to a component pin. However it is not having any effect. I can confirm, that realign grid does not do anything useful with the default configuration of pcb (GTK-GUI). However, with the lesstif GUI realign grid works as advertised in section 3.1.2 of the pcb manual: When choosing the new align point, the crosshair still locks to the old grid, but the cursor points to the new grid point. With both GUIs the realign entry in the menu executes GetXY(). Perhaps this is an inconsistency between GTK-GUI and lesstif-GUI: With GTK the action GetXY() returns the position of the cross hair. By contrast, with lesstif the same action returns the position of the cursor. By the way, the option --draw-grid does not work for either GUI. ---)kaiamrtin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key:http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmkop=get ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB Realign Grid
Never used pcb View - Align Grid. What may be the intended function? My guess: If you realign grid, all other components will become off grid. What I did: Align the new component to the grid, by grabbing its center or a single pin. For aligning a single pin it may be necessary/helpful activating Settings/Orthogonal Moves. I use the align grid for components that are not based around metric spacings or vice versa. In this case the first pin is aligned, but every pin thereafter is increasingly off grid. I like to run a fairly course grid when doing the bulk of my layout - I find that I can place and align things fairly quickly. However this hinges on being able to re-align the grid to different pins/pads so that I can for example put a via down that is exactly perpendicular to the pad. I can confirm, that realign grid does not do anything useful with the default configuration of pcb (GTK-GUI). However, with the lesstif GUI realign grid works as advertised in section 3.1.2 of the pcb manual: When choosing the new align point, the crosshair still locks to the old grid, but the cursor points to the new grid point. Cheers, I will have a bit of a play with the lesstif GUI. I had thought that the locking to grid may have been an issue - but I had hoped that would be overridden by the fact that the cross-hair was snapping to the pin/pad. I was also careful to ensure the curser was at the same point, so in theory either returning the cross-hair or the curser location should have resulted in a change. thanks heaps for the responses, Geoff ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: ten pages of command line options
I think there needs to be a way to specify the sort key and section heading separately, as bom-Options is not a good text for a section heading. Perhaps a mapping between sort key and section heading could be found once, rather than have to include both for every option? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
