Re: gEDA-user: Hm...not much improvement

2006-09-22 Thread al davis
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:42, Stuart Brorson wrote: I suspect user error, and think he should do some more reading and investigating before posting bleats to geda-user. Even if it is user error, it deserves attention. Almost 100% of the bug reports for gnucap since its beginning have

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread Evan Lavelle
After all that, I forgot to mention the line length. Rule of thumb: if the first reflection gets back to the driver before the driver has finished transitioning, then you probably don't have a problem, and you don't need termination. In your case, that's 12, or about 1ns. So, if your drivers

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-22 Thread Hugo Elias
kmk wrote: And other info could be displayed about that object too. For example track/via thickness, drill size, joined or not. Please put this info to a command line rather than where the mouse sits. Some kind of pop up balloons would be too much clutter. Yes, absolutely. It

Re: gEDA-user: mounting hardware footprints for PCB

2006-09-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
Dave, So, for this project I'm doing, I wanted a footprint providing a hole for #4 hardware, with a pad that would clear the corners of a hex stand-off that is 1/4 inch across the flats. Of course, being an Old Time Unix Programmer(TM), instead of creating a trivial 4-line text file with

Re: gEDA-user: Hm...not much improvement

2006-09-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, al davis wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:42, Stuart Brorson wrote: I suspect user error, and think he should do some more reading and investigating before posting bleats to geda-user. Even if it is user error, it deserves attention. Almost 100% of the bug

gEDA-user: RE: Not Much Improvedment

2006-09-22 Thread Arthur Baldwin
I can't help but notice that my comments here have evoked much commentary but have not resulted in any contributed code. I'm hoping to be able to contribute some code of my own beginning in November of this yearafter my wedding. Anyway...just thought this might be encouraging.Arthur

Re: gEDA-user: RE: Not Much Improvedment

2006-09-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Arthur Baldwin wrote: I can't help but notice that my comments here have evoked much commentary but have not resulted in any contributed code. I'm hoping to be able to contribute some code of my own beginning in November of this yearafter my wedding. Anyway...just

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Icarus snapshot 20060809 compile error tgt-vvp under cygwin w/ patch pr1541452.patch

2006-09-22 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Stephen Williams wrote: [...] Try adding ivl_lval_width to the ivl.def file in the main source directory, then rebuild from the top down. It looks like that got missed in the big fixup. If that does it for you, I'll check it into CVS. Thanks Steve, that works. Guenter

gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
Guys -- I have a PCB specification/manufacturing question, and I figure some of the gurus on this list might have the answer. I want to create a PCB with some material (0.030, say) milled off the top of the board at specific locations. That is, I want to cut grooves into -- but not through --

Re: gEDA-user: Minor details (was Re: Hm...not much improvement)

2006-09-22 Thread Patrick Doyle
On 9/22/06, Alessandro Baretta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, fellow coders, how and when shall we address them? 1) Effective support for multipage schematics, with a common layer 0 for titleblocks and automatic page numbering. The thought I've had for title blocks is to define a couple of new

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
I don't know what chips you're using, For completeness, M32C/83 and CY7C1049B ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Re: Minor details (was Re: Hm...not much improvement)

2006-09-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:56:16 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: The thought I've had for title blocks is to define a couple of new attributes (after first checking to see if they haven't already been defined) called something like pagenum and numpages and to attach them to the titleblock. I already

Re: gEDA-user: another I/O port idea

2006-09-22 Thread John Griessen
Hi DJ, Is having -10V and +10V supply hard in your design? If so, I think your design with diodes will work if you find transistors that have a tight VGSth spec range. That's hard to get for sure... Tri state anything is going to need tighter analog level control for all parts, which goes

Re: gEDA-user: another I/O port idea

2006-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
Is having -10V and +10V supply hard in your design? Yeah, and not useful either - everything is 5vdc or 24vac outside the box. Then your next stage can use a 10V supply to hard turn on some heater and solenoid handling FETs. The second stage just drives the thermostats - RS-232, 1wire,

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
Ahh, I'm using the CY7C1049 in some of my stuff. Did you need terminators? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-22 Thread John Griessen
Ive been using gtk and wondered why I couldn't get my preferred Pcb resource bindkey file to work... The Lesstif GUI has it? What is that one missing? I had thought the GTK one more complete, but... sounds like I need to switch to get speedy moving of large groups of layout. John G DJ

Re: gEDA-user: mounting hardware footprints for PCB

2006-09-22 Thread John Griessen
Sure Dave, No sense letting all that lure of puzzle solving programming time not be widely appreciated... grin John G Dave N6NZ wrote: So, for this project I'm doing, I wanted a footprint providing a hole for #4 hardware Anyway, I can make this available under GPL if there is interest.

Re: gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-22 Thread John Griessen
Dang you're good! JG DJ Delorie wrote: Ok, I just checked in a patch to convert rectangular polygons to pads ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Minor details (was Re: Hm...not much improvement)

2006-09-22 Thread John Griessen
Patrick Doyle wrote: I'm looking forward to implementing a set of scripts again, this time for a CAD tool for which documentation is available on the file formats :-) So far, I have dealt with that by not using off page connectors :-) Hi Patrick, I'm not getting

Re: gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Dan McMahill
DJ Delorie wrote: * How do I capture this information so a PCB fab house can use it? Use a layer. Note that fab shops have limited sizes for milling tools; usually 3/32, 1/16, and 1/32 inch (93, 62, and 31 mil). Anyway, draw in the layer where you want milled, and when you send it to the

Re: gEDA-user: Verifying connections in PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Dan McMahill
Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to DJ and John for quick responses. As you both guessed, I once again proved that I am a bonehead. After posting, I discovered two additional rats hiding in the corner of the board. I connected those two nets, and then when I hit o to refresh the rats I got the

Re: gEDA-user: Verifying connections in PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread John Luciani
On 9/22/06, Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to DJ and John for quick responses. As you both guessed, I once again proved that I am a bonehead. After posting, I discovered two additional rats hiding in the corner of the board. I connected those two nets,

Re: gEDA-user: Verifying connections in PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Dan McMahill
John Luciani wrote: On 9/22/06, Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to DJ and John for quick responses. As you both guessed, I once again proved that I am a bonehead. After posting, I discovered two additional rats hiding in the corner of the board. I

Re: gEDA-user: Verifying connections in PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread John Luciani
On 9/22/06, Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Luciani wrote: On 9/22/06, Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to DJ and John for quick responses. As you both guessed, I once again proved that I am a bonehead. After posting, I discovered two

Re: gEDA-user: newbie question: PCB: crossing soldering lines

2006-09-22 Thread Giorgenes Gelatti
tks guys, for the reply. it was very helpful. giorgenes 2006/9/21, Peter TB Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 21 September 2006 16:08, Dave McGuire wrote: On Sep 21, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Giorgenes Gelatti wrote: I'm new to electronics, geda and this list. I've read some tutorial in the

Re: gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
Thanks to everybody for their info about milling PCBs. I think my best chance is to just buy two-sided metal clad PCB from Radio Shack (or from Boston's equivalent, You Blew It Electronics), do my own etching, and have it milled at a shop. Taking it to a PCB house may cost more than I want to

Re: gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread John Luciani
On 9/22/06, Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everybody for their info about milling PCBs. I think my best chance is to just buy two-sided metal clad PCB from Radio Shack (or from Boston's equivalent, You Blew It Electronics), do my own etching, and have it milled at a shop.

Re: gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread Dan McMahill
Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to everybody for their info about milling PCBs. I think my best chance is to just buy two-sided metal clad PCB from Radio Shack (or from Boston's equivalent, You Blew It Electronics), do my own etching, and have it milled at a shop. Taking it to a PCB house may

Re: gEDA-user: Milling channels in a PCB?

2006-09-22 Thread John Luciani
On 9/22/06, Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: Thanks to everybody for their info about milling PCBs. I think my best chance is to just buy two-sided metal clad PCB from Radio Shack (or from Boston's equivalent, You Blew It Electronics), do my own etching, and have