gEDA-user: reload library directories while in gschem

2007-08-28 Thread Duncan Drennan
I have the following line in my system-gafrc, (component-library-search ${HOME}/projects/sym) which searches that directory for symbols and symbol directories when starting gschem. If I add a directory when working in gschem (e.g. I did not have any opamps, and then made a new opamp directory

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Easy way to auto route different size traces ?

2007-08-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:42:15 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Open up the netlist window. It has options for including or excluding nets from the ratlist. Make sure only the nets you want are enabled. Optimize the rats. Autoroute all rats. I put this tip into the wiki... ---(kaimartin)--- --

gEDA-user: pcb build problem

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Baxendale
Anyone know what the following means when running configure for pcb? : config.status:742: creating Makefile config.status:877: WARNING: Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting I'm using: ./configure --prefix=/home/des0prb/geda --enable-maintainer-mode under Fedora 7 on pcb

gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread armdeveloper
I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved my work every 5 minutes. I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist. I opened myfile.pcb with PCB. My custom elements are missing.

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread armdeveloper
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved my work every 5 minutes. I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist. I

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved my work every 5 minutes. I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist. I

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:55 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved my work every 5 minutes. I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a change. I

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Make sure the description field of the element matches the footprint name, and that the refdes is the same. Those are the fields gsch2pcb uses to determine if an element doesn't match the schematic. You can change the description by View-Description then n to rename it. Save that .bak0 file

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Lost custom element data when file is reopened ? Bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Meier
I suspect that gsch2pcb overwrote your project file. Did you save the custom elements individually? Have you looked to see if you have a backup project file? myproject.pcb- for example. Steve Meier On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote: I spent the morning making 4 new

gEDA-user: Further polygon fun in PCB

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Meier
Anybody know why these two polygons in layer 2 causes PCB to crash? again this is a cvs version from aug 10th time frame. Steve Meier # release: pcb 1.99v # date:Tue Aug 28 16:17:32 2007 # user:steve (steve) # host:linux.site # To read pcb files, the pcb version (or the cvs source

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Rat's nest to best routing... strategies ?

2007-08-28 Thread gene
Hey Steve - Is that you who also posts onto the SI-list? gene ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread gene
If anyone reads Embedded Systems Magazine, you may already know of Jack Ganssle. If not, he writes a monthly column for the magazine. I subscribe to his somewhat monthly newsletter. Well, last month he wrote about a bunch of freeware tools. I noticed that he didn't mention anything about gEda,

Re: gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Gene Glick sent this: Regarding free tools, are you aware of the gEda stuff? Although it's all Linux based, there's a ton of goodness Thanks for the plug, but next time, please be accurate. gEDA runs on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac, with varying levels of effort. PCB only recently was

Re: gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread gene
Thanks for the plug, but next time, please be accurate. gEDA runs on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac, with varying levels of effort. PCB only recently was tainted with Linux; it was on Unix before that, and Amiga before that. I knew about windows port, but honestly not much about the

Re: gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread DJ Delorie
I knew about windows port, but honestly not much about the others. If I knew he'd be quoting me, maybe I'd have been more complete. He's a good guy, and I was just giving him a pointer to some cool stuff. Don't get me wrong; we appreciate the evangelism. I've just learned over the years

Re: gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Meier
Since the future is dependent upon the past I always try to be very carefull about what I did in the past. DJ Delorie wrote: I knew about windows port, but honestly not much about the others. If I knew he'd be quoting me, maybe I'd have been more complete. He's a good guy, and I was just

Re: gEDA-user: the Embedded Muse

2007-08-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Steve Meier wrote: Since the future is dependent upon the past I always try to be very carefull about what I did in the past. Somebody's drinking tonight. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007