Re: gEDA-user: gerbv - abnormal exit (2nd attempt)

2007-12-18 Thread Stefan Petersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Petersen wrote: 2) The aperture macro also contains operations like $4=$1X$5. My copy of Gerber Format: Plot Data Format Reference Book is quite old, (c)1993. But some of the examples use the $4= construct to work around the severe restriction on

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB

2007-12-18 Thread Dave N6NZ
Dave McGuire wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Perhaps what is needed here is the concept of data sources, with a defined API that forms an abstraction layer between gschem and the component database(s), whatever format/database type/etc they may be stored in. That way,

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB

2007-12-18 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Perhaps what is needed here is the concept of data sources, with a defined API that forms an abstraction layer between gschem and the component database(s), whatever format/ database type/etc they may be stored in. That way, data source

gEDA-user: contest results are out!

2007-12-18 Thread DJ Delorie
http://bbs.circuitcellar.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3500 I didn't take first, but I did take both second place and the Connected (Communications) Applications subcategory prize. Yay! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: gnucap development snapshot 2007-12-16

2007-12-18 Thread al davis
There is a new development snapshot of gnucap available. There's a package at: http://www.gnucap.org/devel/gnucap-2007-12-16.tar.gz Models (optional) have also been updated: http://www.gnucap.org/devel/gnucap-2007-12-16-models-bsim.tar.gz

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Meier
I won't speak to gschem's internals but I would be very interested in working to connect to my non-stock library and use the db interface to generate netlists and such. I don't think there would be much of a problem. Application links to libakeda and to db interface library. Application loads

Re: gEDA-user: contest results are out!

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Meier
Hey congradulations DJ Steve M. On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:57 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: http://bbs.circuitcellar.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3500 I didn't take first, but I did take both second place and the Connected (Communications) Applications subcategory prize. Yay!

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB

2007-12-18 Thread Levente
Dave McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Perhaps what is needed here is the concept of data sources, with a defined API that forms an abstraction layer between gschem and the component database(s), whatever format/ database type/etc they may be

gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread peter
Hi folks, There has been an interesting discussion about parts databases and the gschem component library. What I would quite like to do is to implement something similar to what has been described, especially since I have found a major bug which only (yet another) serious component library API

gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread Nate Lowrie
I have searched through all of the FAQs and doc and haven't found the answer that I am looking for. I have a schematic that has three sheets to it, say MySchematic-1.sch, MySchematic-2.sch, MySchematic-3.sch. I want to print them out to a single ps document. Is there a way to do this? Cheers,

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread Larry Doolittle
Nate - On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:33:55PM -0700, Nate Lowrie wrote: [chop] I have a schematic that has three sheets to it, say MySchematic-1.sch, MySchematic-2.sch, MySchematic-3.sch. I want to print them out to a single ps document. Is there a way to do this? If nothing else, there's

Re: gEDA-user: contest results are out!

2007-12-18 Thread DJ Delorie
The communications award is for making the alarm clock be an NTP client, I surmise. From what I read of the original rules, the prize is for Superior use of one or more of the unique subcategory features, with that category being Connected (Communications) Applications.

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread DJ Delorie
I use this perl script to stitch together N *.ps files from gschem into a single multi-page *.ps file: #!/usr/bin/perl # -*- perl -*- $need_prolog = 1; $pageno = 0; for $ps (@ARGV) { open(PS, $ps); $print = $need_prolog ? 1 : 0; while (PS) { if (/%%Page: \d/) {

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread John Luciani
On Dec 18, 2007 2:42 PM, DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $Print = 0 if /^%%End/; shouldn't that be $print = 0 if /^%%End/; (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread Tamas Szabo
Hi Nate, This is not a one step solution, you may already tried, but... Print all the pages separately. Than: cat MySchematic-1.ps MySchematic-2.ps MySchematic-3.ps MySchematic.ps ps2pdf MySchematic.ps pdf2ps MySchematic.pdf I do not know why ps-pdf-ps conversion is necessary, but without it

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread DJ Delorie
$print = 0 if /^%%End/; Yeah, probably. It worked (ps-wise) anyway. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread John Doty
On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Nate Lowrie wrote: I have searched through all of the FAQs and doc and haven't found the answer that I am looking for. I have a schematic that has three sheets to it, say MySchematic-1.sch, MySchematic-2.sch, MySchematic-3.sch. I want to print them out to a

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:33:55PM -0700, Nate Lowrie wrote: I have searched through all of the FAQs and doc and haven't found the answer that I am looking for. I have a schematic that has three sheets to it, say MySchematic-1.sch, MySchematic-2.sch, MySchematic-3.sch. I want to print them

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Dave N6NZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, snip What I would quite like to do is to implement something similar to what has been described, especially since I have found a major bug which only (yet another) serious component library API change will fix. Excellent! - What you want the API to be

Re: gEDA-user: contest results are out!

2007-12-18 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: I did take both second place and the Connected (Communications) Applications subcategory prize. Yay hey DJ! Now you have the international recognition you deserve and cash winnings too. But, did they appreciate your woodwork? Congrats. John G -- Ecosensory Austin TX

Re: gEDA-user: contest results are out!

2007-12-18 Thread DJ Delorie
Now you have the international recognition you deserve and cash winnings too. Yup. Not the first time, though. My old alarm clock was also published in a magazine, many decades ago, and I got paid for that too. And, like, I don't need *more* international recognition, do I? ;-) But, did

Re: gEDA-user: printing out more than one schematic sheet as a ps document

2007-12-18 Thread Nate Lowrie
Thanks for all of the responses. I figured I could do it with a MakeFile, just wondering if gEDA automatically did it. I got Ben's script to work. Cheers, Nate L. On Dec 18, 2007 1:28 PM, Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:33:55PM -0700, Nate Lowrie wrote: I

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 21:18:21 Dave N6NZ wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, snip What I would quite like to do is to implement something similar to what has been described, especially since I have found a major bug which only (yet another) serious component library API

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Levente
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, I have a few thoughts on this topic, but maybe they are not quite answers to your questions. I've been thinking about this topic while I was in Stuttgart in the summer. What I did is a database structure, and a simple command line application, that connects

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Meier
Peter, I have been working on the scheme interface quite a bit recently. What you are discussing is fairly similar to the area I am digging into. As a bit of a back ground. The basic algoryth I use for reading in a project is to. Take the list of input files from the command line. For each of

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Meier
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 23:22 +, Levente wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, The symbol files should be as light as possible, and we should make them heavy by adding information coming from the database. So can we make a list of what should come from the light symbol and

Re: gEDA-user: Parts DB API

2007-12-18 Thread Paul Tan
Hi All, I also think Database approach is the right idea. Most commercial EDA tools use that approach. I hope we can try to make the gEDA DB interface as generic as possible, so that it can accommodate VLSI design cell librarie as well as PCB component libs. Best Regards, Paul Tan

gEDA-user: HOW TO COUNT QTY OF UNROUTED TRACKS (LIKE A DRC) IN PCB

2007-12-18 Thread Transistor Toaster
Hello, I saw that the Design rule checker will not report unrouted (orange default color) tracks. Would someone please tell me if there's a way to get PCB to tell me the quantity of remaining tracks such that I don't need to observe with my eyes carefully if there's a tiny orange line that I

Re: gEDA-user: HOW TO COUNT QTY OF UNROUTED TRACKS (LIKE A DRC) IN PCB

2007-12-18 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:22:55AM -0500, Transistor Toaster wrote: need to observe with my eyes carefully if there's a tiny orange line that I missed? Every time you optimize the ratsnest it logs the number, and there's a special message if you're done. Also, the lesstif hid (maybe both) has