gEDA-user: strange happenings in PCB

I'm noticing some odd (and decidedly antisocial) behavior in the 20070208 snapshot of PCB. I have two physically adjacent 0805-package resistors for which pin 1 is to be connected together. When I start a trace from pin 1 of the first resistor, it won't let me bring it anywhere near

gEDA-user: Drawing lines in soldermask layer?

Sierra Proto Express prefers the board outline be a 10 mil line in the soldermask layer. Is there any way to draw directly in the soldermask with PCB? Barring that, can I make a component that's got my board outline in only soldermask using width/mask/clearance/etc tricks? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD

Re: gEDA-user: strange happenings in PCB

On 6/23/07, Dave McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: I have two physically adjacent 0805-package resistors for which pin 1 is to be connected together. When I start a trace from pin 1 of the first resistor, it won't let me bring it anywhere

Re: gEDA-user: strange happenings in PCB

On Jun 23, 2007, at 8:06 PM, John Luciani wrote: I have two physically adjacent 0805-package resistors for which pin 1 is to be connected together. When I start a trace from pin 1 of the first resistor, it won't let me bring it anywhere near pin 1 Yeah, this drove me nuts when I first

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines in soldermask layer?

Ben Jackson wrote: Sierra Proto Express prefers the board outline be a 10 mil line in the soldermask layer. Is there any way to draw directly in the soldermask with PCB? Barring that, can I make a component that's got my board outline in only soldermask using width/mask/clearance/etc

gEDA-user: Huge merged soldermask?

I'm making some smt crystal footprints and arbitrarily chose a .010 (radius) mask. I'm using jcl's library, so I'm actually putting in .254mm and it's doing the rest. One of the footprints (based directly on Fox datasheet) has a small gap between the pads (only 0.4mm) which causes the mask to

Re: gEDA-user: Grouping multiple symbols in gschem?

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:25 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:29:51 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: It's a known bug now. Please file a bug report. done. Its fixed in the git repository now. Thanks for the bug report! Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical

gEDA-user: PCB trace colors

As is probably obvious, I'm moving from a fairly old GTK snapshot to a much newer Motif/HID snapshot of PCB. I have to ask...Whose bright idea was it to make the default colors for the component and solder sides red and orange? ;) (and more importantly...what's the current way to

Re: gEDA-user: PCB trace colors

(and more importantly...what's the current way to change them to something with, oh, some contrast? ;)) For the lesstif HID, edit ~/.Xdefaults: Pcb.layer-color-1: #a03030 Pcb.layer-color-2: #3030a0 For Gtk, use File-Preferences-Colors

gEDA-user: one more: Motif HID/single window?

And one more question, while I'm babbling. I like the Motif HID, but the X11 window manager under MacOS X is of the click to focus mindset...making it a real pain in the butt to use torn-off menus (which is all but a necessity for things like the Tools and Current Layer menus). Is it

Re: gEDA-user: one more: Motif HID/single window?

Is it possible to embed those menus into the main PCB window, as it was for the earlier incarnations of PCB? Not at the moment. I've thought about adding toolbar/sidebar support to pcb-menu.res but haven't found time to add it. ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB trace colors

On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:59 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: (and more importantly...what's the current way to change them to something with, oh, some contrast? ;)) For the lesstif HID, edit ~/.Xdefaults: Pcb.layer-color-1:#a03030 Pcb.layer-color-2:#3030a0 For Gtk, use File-Preferences-Colors

Re: gEDA-user: PCB trace colors

I will note that this is a 2-minute response time, at midnight on a Saturday. Just TRY to get support like this with commercial software. :-) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: one more: Motif HID/single window?

Is that sort of functionality actually easy to accomplish within the Motif API? Straightforward but not trivial. Adding the panels is easy. We already have code to create buttons. The tricky bit is (1) adding special codes for insert tool bar here or insert layer panel here and (2)

Re: gEDA-user: strange happenings in PCB

Hi Dave, I had this with this release of pcb too. I fiddled with the Auto enforce DRC clearance toggle in the settings pull down menu. Just my EUR 0.02 Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 19:35 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: