Re: gEDA-user: Multi pin description

[Dan McMahill]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:10:37AM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote:
 On Monday, 28 June 2004 21:32, Karel Kulhav? wrote:
  On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:26:44AM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote:
  Is it possible to use XCircuit together with gEDA PCB?
 
 One can use XCircuit as a schematic capture and netlist tool for PCB but I 
 don't know of any compatibility between gschem and XCircuit.

I don't know if XCircuit has a tool like gsch2pcb for schematic-layout
forward annotation.  I've actually been thinking that we should come up
with an eco file format similar in spirit to what Pads does.  I think
it could help in terms of providing a somewhat generic interface for
doing forward/backward annotation.  Seems it would help with gEDA as
well as Xcircuit.  I'll try to find some time to write up a more detailed
proposal.

 I prefer using gschem because it's a bit simpler to work with and because of 
 the larger part libraries but XCircuit has some really useful features that I 
 miss and having multiple pin descriptions is one of them.
 
Any chance of you putting together a list of the features you'd like to see?

-Dan

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Re: gEDA-user: Multi pin description

[Charles Lepple]

Karel Kulhavý said:
 Is it possible to use XCircuit together with gEDA PCB?

Sounds like that was one of the original goals. From
http://xcircuit.ece.jhu.edu/ :

In particular, development parallels work on the open-source program
pcb[1], in an attempt to make XCircuit a useful schematic-capture tool for
PCB netlisting and netlist validation.

[1] http://pcb.ece.jhu.edu/

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Charles Lepple
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gEDA-user: Multi pin description

[Paul Surgeon]

On Monday, 28 June 2004 21:32, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:26:44AM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote:
 Is it possible to use XCircuit together with gEDA PCB?

One can use XCircuit as a schematic capture and netlist tool for PCB but I 
don't know of any compatibility between gschem and XCircuit.

I prefer using gschem because it's a bit simpler to work with and because of 
the larger part libraries but XCircuit has some really useful features that I 
miss and having multiple pin descriptions is one of them.

Should this go to the dev list?

Paul

gEDA-user: Multi pin description

[Paul Surgeon]

Is there anyway in gschem to have a list of descriptions per pin and then just 
select which one must be shown?

e.g.
On a PIC16F628A pin 12 alone has four different functions :
RB6, T1OSO, T1CKI, and PGC
When I try to add all the pin descriptions to a PIC microcontroller it ends up 
having to be a HUGE symbol to get everything to fit.

XCircuit now has the ability where one can choose out of a list which pin has 
which description and only the selected description for each pin will be 
shown. The default pin description for each pin is set in the library file by 
index numbers.
It works really nicely!

Is there such a thing in gschem?

Thanks
Paul Surgeon