Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Igor2
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: >> Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and >> learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I >> would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project. > >I didn't see a response f

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Dave N6NZ
DJ Delorie wrote: I'm guessing it's using a variant of HPGL embedded in a PCL data stream. I.e. a mode switch between languages. The PCL5 spec has commands for this. That would make sense for driving the laser. It is just an X-Y device. The laser can be turned on and off, of course, an

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Dan McMahill
Dave N6NZ wrote: Dave McGuire wrote: On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scripta

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> Is HPGL at all like PCL? HPGL is more like gerber. It's a vector plotting language - pen up, pen down, move here, move there, etc. PCL is primarily a raster language. Move cursor here, draw text/raster/whatever. Postscript is a combination, more of a generic programming language that happen

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Dave N6NZ
Dave McGuire wrote: On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project. I

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project. I didn't see a response

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog Release 0.8.3

2006-10-04 Thread Dan McMahill
Stephen Williams wrote: Hi, I've noted that the Icarus Verilog 0.8 branch gets widespread use, and also the devel branch is still unstable, so I'm still actively maintaining the 0.8 branch; and that leads us to the new release 0.8.3. This is a stable, incremental release of the compiler. It onl

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and > learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I > would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project. I didn't see a response from Dave, but I've attached the code wrote to work

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA-dev: Filechooser and component selector code

2006-10-04 Thread John Griessen
Choices like leaving some windows open after a sequence, or toolbars that are visible is the kind I was thinking of. The keyboard commands are two letter in gschem, so that's not likely to change very easily, but starting some alternate way to execute commands with keys not claimed by the gsche

gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog Release 0.8.3

2006-10-04 Thread Stephen Williams
Hi, I've noted that the Icarus Verilog 0.8 branch gets widespread use, and also the devel branch is still unstable, so I'm still actively maintaining the 0.8 branch; and that leads us to the new release 0.8.3. This is a stable, incremental release of the compiler. It only fixes bugs and some por

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> How did you get that pcbpool quote? > I just got one for a 4 layer 50x50mm prototype and it was 143 euro > which is way more than $104. I'd love to get 4 layers for $100! 4" x 5" [*] 4 layer board, qty 1, gc-preview format, 8 days, = $94.38 Add $12.50 for top silk = $106.88 (84.27 euro) No

Re: gEDA-user: Newbie PCB DRC questions

2006-10-04 Thread Peter Baxendale
Ah, my mistake then. Maybe they were auto routed segments I'd ripped up and manually routed. Apologies for the unwarranted slur on the auto router. > I don't believe these small segments are due to the autoroute process. > I see them a lot and I've never used the auto-router. I believe they >