Re: gEDA-user: Very heavy symbols

2008-04-10 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Carl, On Donnerstag, 10. April 2008, Carl Denzen Van wrote: > Thank you all for the tips! It is getting clearer for me. > Werner wrote: > "I'm using BCE as pinnumber attributes as long the footprint of the > device (transistor) is not defined. Thus it's easy to replace them > when adding a foot

Re: gEDA-user: Was: Couldn't find rat... found!

2008-04-10 Thread Dave N6NZ
Traylor Roger wrote: > John and DJ, > It _was_ a trace on the wrong side of the board. Don't feel lonely. That's pretty much always the source of mine. For some reason I keep trying to route to surface mount pads that are on the other side Turning off pads usually does the trick for

Re: gEDA-user: Very heavy symbols

2008-04-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:51:04 +0200, Carl Denzen Van wrote: > Maybe I am not the first one to propose this idea, but I didn't find it > anywhere yet. No, you are not :-) Lists of footprints in a symbol have been proposed before. The GUI could present this list to the user in the edit attributes d

Re: gEDA-user: Very heavy symbols

2008-04-10 Thread John Luciani
Variations of your idea are in the mail archive. My preference would be to have pin labels in the symbol files and the label to pin number relations in a database. Once you choose a component (mfg/mfg pn) the pin numbers would be assigned. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _

Re: gEDA-user: Very heavy symbols

2008-04-10 Thread Carl Denzen Van
Thank you all for the tips! It is getting clearer for me. Werner wrote: "I'm using BCE as pinnumber attributes as long the footprint of the device (transistor) is not defined. Thus it's easy to replace them when adding a footprint." I am using npn-2.sym for a BDX33 in TO220. What is the easies

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> This is only to be found in Free Software projects such as gEDA and > friends. > > Keep on doing the Good Thing (TM) DJ :) Now if only we could make a living off it... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-b

gEDA-user: Was: Couldn't find rat... found!

2008-04-10 Thread Traylor Roger
John and DJ, It _was_ a trace on the wrong side of the board. Using grep on the .pcb file was the trick. Found the "Rat" line immediately. The rat was only a small point and was too small to see at the magnifications I was using to scan large portions of the board. So for those

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, Now this is the kind of service you never ever get from a M$ EDA company. Reason #1 is that the sales rep can't find the right software developer within a time frame of 6 minutes (it took me even longer to reply this e-mail). Reason #2 is that it is "not done" to offer a possible solutio

Re: gEDA-user: Tabs in text print wrong

2008-04-10 Thread Mike Jarabek
Hi, The PS export code doesn't currently handle tabs. Except in the case where the text is rendered as vectors. If you look in the gschemrc files you will find the knob that controls this. The other option is to use two text items and line them up manually. --Original Message--

gEDA-user: Tabs in text print wrong

2008-04-10 Thread Matt Ettus
I often use text on my schematic pages in the form of a table, so I use tabs to make columns. On the screen, these show up fine, but when printed, the tabs come out as capital Y's with umlauts on them. Is there some way to fix this? Thanks, Matt ___

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:22:30 -0700, Traylor Roger wrote: > When I optimize the rats, the log says I have one unconnected rat. I > cannot find it for the life of me. Tried turning off all layers but > rats but can't any rats there either. I like to increase rat-thickness in .pcb/preferences

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol analog/npn-2.sym wrong

2008-04-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:08:29 -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > I should mention that for both comercial tools and geda I tend to build > my own symbol and foot print libaries. Me too. See my section on gedasymbols.org. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog __

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol analog/npn-2.sym wrong

2008-04-10 Thread Karl Edler
This is just a vague wish but wouldn't it be nice to have places for checked symbols and footprints? There could be one place for lightweight symbols, another for heavyweight ones. Perhaps a tree where symbols that have been checked according to different criteria could be placed and marked "che

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh crap, now I'm going to have to write it. > > And now I'm going to have upgrade ;-) Wrote it. http://www.delorie.com/pcb/findrat.c #include #include #include "global.h" #include "data.h" #include "hid.h" #inclu

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread John Luciani
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh crap, now I'm going to have to write it. And now I'm going to have upgrade ;-) (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread DJ Delorie
Simpler would be a "find next rat" plugin that moves the crosshair to a rat. Any rat will do, it's up to the user to zoom in. Oh crap, now I'm going to have to write it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread John Luciani
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looked over the documents and can't find a way to determine > > what net corresponds to an unconnected rat. Any ideas? > > If all else fails, save your file and view it in a text editor. > Search for "Rat". Look

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> Looked over the documents and can't find a way to determine > what net corresponds to an unconnected rat. Any ideas? If all else fails, save your file and view it in a text editor. Search for "Rat". Look at the coordinates :-) ___ geda-user ma

Re: gEDA-user: rat not connected, can't find it

2008-04-10 Thread John Luciani
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Traylor Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > When I optimize the rats, the log says I have one unconnected > rat. I cannot find it for the life of me. Tried turning off > all layers but rats but can't any rats there either. > > Looked over the document