Re: gEDA-user: PCB refdes selection problems

2008-03-06 Thread Dave N6NZ
Traylor Roger wrote: > Gang, > > However, now I can almost never select a refdes and move > it away from the component pads. Sometimes I am able to > move one but most I cannot. > > Is there some setting I am missing? Well, when that happens to me, it seems to be an artifact of th

gEDA-user: PCB refdes selection problems

2008-03-06 Thread Traylor Roger
Gang, I have been using PCB on a design and have just recently started over with a cleaned up set of footprints. I removed my old design.pcb, all the backups, .net and .new.pcb and started again. All appeared well. However, now I can almost never select a refdes and move it away f

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-06 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, FWIW, I have updated on the link below. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 06:48 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 21:24 +, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: > > I've been working on a design for a software define radio and some of > > the components I'm p

gEDA-user: Howto do "correct" power symbols?

2008-03-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
gsymcheck complains with warnings and an error on generic power symbols in the default lib: /--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gsymcheck -vv /usr/local/bin/share/gEDA/sym/power/gnd-1.sym gEDA/gsymcheck version 1.5.0.20080127 (...) Checking: /usr/local/bin/share/gEDA/sym/power/gnd-1.sym W

gEDA-user: gschem: keyboard shortcuts for hierarchical navigation

2008-03-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
The actions in the hierarchy menu are mapped to shift-h combos. This is a bit of a pain when actually working on a project with lots of sub sheets. The key combination with plain h are mapped to the help actions. I don't think that anyone will need them very frequently. Suggestion: Access the hi

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> The program requires a minimum of Java version 6, for some just clicking > on the first link [1] will work, but if that doesn't work try > downloading the second jar file [2] and run it using 'java -jar > footprintbuilder.jar'. For those of you that don't have java, here is a screenshot [1] show

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> I presume you have looked at the interactive footprint scripts by DJ at > gedasymbols.org for twopads and dils. I know I should have looked harder for an existing script. But I'm hoping my program can be used to generate (or at least help generate) some complex footprints, for example S.O. D