gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net?
Hallo all, I'm new to this mailinglist so please be gentle. My question: Is it possible to make a net thicker in gschem (not a line but a net). I want to indicate in my schematic than the net is a high current power net. Thanks for your answers. Best regards, Robert. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net?
Hi Robert, I think if you look for the system-gschemrc file (probably in /etc/gEDA/) then you'll find a section in there ; net-style string ; ; Set to thin if you want thin nets. ; Set to thick if you want thick nets. ; This mode also determines what net style gets printed ; ;(net-style thin) (net-style thick) (there are similar sections below that for bus, pin and line styles) If you net style edit this file (as root) then you'll alter the net style for all new schematics (after a quick check: it seems to apply to all schematics as they are opened). Now, if you read through this: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial and look carefully at the section on Setup you'll see that you can put a gschemrc file into ~/.gEDA that will allow you to set any preferred net style for all your projects. I think it is possible to put a gschemrc file in each project that will apply just to that project but I haven't managed to make that work in a quick play. I'm sure there are people with more experience who can tell you about some of the other ways that you can customise gEDA but I hope this gets you off in the right direction. Cheers, Andy. http://signality.co.uk 2009/9/3 myken my...@iae.nl: Hallo all, I'm new to this mailinglist so please be gentle. My question: Is it possible to make a net thicker in gschem (not a line but a net). I want to indicate in my schematic than the net is a high current power net. Thanks for your answers. Best regards, Robert. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net?
Hallo Andy, Thanks for your answer. I have also found this option but it does not solve my problem. My design contains both power nets (thick nets) and normal nets (thin or normal nets) and I wish to distinguish between the two in one schematic. I know it is only cosmetic and it will have no further meaning in the process towards a PCB. But for documentation purposes I like to indicate to users the difference between to two. Sorry if my question was not clear about that. Regards, Robert. -Original Message- From: Andy Fierman andyfier...@signality.co.uk Reply-to: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:45:02 +0100 Hi Robert, I think if you look for the system-gschemrc file (probably in /etc/gEDA/) then you'll find a section in there ; net-style string ; ; Set to thin if you want thin nets. ; Set to thick if you want thick nets. ; This mode also determines what net style gets printed ; ;(net-style thin) (net-style thick) (there are similar sections below that for bus, pin and line styles) If you net style edit this file (as root) then you'll alter the net style for all new schematics (after a quick check: it seems to apply to all schematics as they are opened). Now, if you read through this: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial and look carefully at the section on Setup you'll see that you can put a gschemrc file into ~/.gEDA that will allow you to set any preferred net style for all your projects. I think it is possible to put a gschemrc file in each project that will apply just to that project but I haven't managed to make that work in a quick play. I'm sure there are people with more experience who can tell you about some of the other ways that you can customise gEDA but I hope this gets you off in the right direction. Cheers, Andy. http://signality.co.uk 2009/9/3 myken my...@iae.nl: Hallo all, I'm new to this mailinglist so please be gentle. My question: Is it possible to make a net thicker in gschem (not a line but a net). I want to indicate in my schematic than the net is a high current power net. Thanks for your answers. Best regards, Robert. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net?
Hi Robert, I've never seen anyone be anything but polite on this mailing list - (and I've asked some daft questions). Your question is interesting. AFAIK, there isn't a way to make a line thicker, the only way around your problem, that I can think of would be to draw rectangles around the net (to make it appear thicker in your schematic) and name the net something like VCC-thick, then when you layout out the design in pcb you'll see the net name to remind you to make it thicker. There may well be a better way, anyone? I think I've seen something similar in Altium Summer '08, I couldn't work out if it was useful or not, the thicker lines made parts of my schematic more jumbled. In the end I wasn't sure if it was any better than a note on the schematics saying make this line thicker? Some way to specify the minimum thickness of a net would be great, I think that this can only be done globally at the moment in pcb though. Hope that this helps Andrew -- ╒═╕ Andrew Whyte MEng CEng paramita ltd ╘═╛ paramita ltd, is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 6631289. Registered office: 788-790 Finchley Road, London, NW11 7TJ (please use trading address for normal correspondence) Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:01:17 +0200 From: myken my...@iae.nl Subject: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net? To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Message-ID: 1251986477.4091.6.ca...@robert-laptop Content-Type: text/plain Hallo all, I'm new to this mailinglist so please be gentle. My question: Is it possible to make a net thicker in gschem (not a line but a net). I want to indicate in my schematic than the net is a high current power net. Thanks for your answers. Best regards, Robert. -- ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem: Is it possible to draw a thicker net?
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 22:42 +0100, andrew whyte wrote: AFAIK, there isn't a way to make a line thicker, the only way around your problem, that I can think of would be to draw rectangles around the net (to make it appear thicker in your schematic) and name the net something like VCC-thick, then when you layout out the design in pcb you'll see the net name to remind you to make it thicker. I just checked the file-format spec: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:file_format_spec And no, there is no way to make a _net_ an arbitrary width. What you can do, is alter the width and colour of graphical _lines_. As a kludge, (and assuming you've basically finished the schematic), you could draw over the nets you want fat with thick lines. Line colour can be set to Net colour (colour index 4), and any thickness you want. See Edit - Colour... and Edit - Line width type... The only thing you might want to watch is that drawing thicker nets doesn't confuse people into thinking they are buses. A bold net is often used to represent a bus - although perhaps the context, and presence / absence of bus rippers will make that clear. Personally, I tend to use power symbols with net-names, rather than drawing the nets explicitly. Best wishes, -- 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
