Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:42:40 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: >> You may do the island with a single pad footprint. Since a few months >> pads can be defined with rectangles rather than lines. > > But pads don't clear pads. You can do the "ocean" with a rectangle. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Kna

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> How close to 'starting over' would these changes be? > Also, is there a feature request list going anywhere? They're all related, I think. I don't want to start over, there's too much logic already existing in pcb, but a fundamental change to the whole layers/board/elements paradigm is probabl

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread phil
> There are a lot of handy and oft-requested features that would require > major design changes in PCB. I'd like them too :-) DJ, How close to 'starting over' would these changes be? Also, is there a feature request list going anywhere? Best, Phil __

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> How about defining pads with polygons? This request has come up a > couple times over the years. It'd be pretty handy too. That would require a file format change. The change I made was to let you use rectangles to define rectangular pads; previously you could only use lines to define rectan

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread phil
> You may do the island with a single pad footprint. Since a few months > pads can be defined with rectangles How about defining pads with polygons? This request has come up a couple times over the years. It'd be pretty handy too. Phil ___ geda-us

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread Dave N6NZ
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:21:47 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: > >> Is there some trick I don't know for insetting a smaller rectangle >> inside a larger one that gives me automatic clearance? > > You may do the island with a single pad footprint. Since a few months > pads can be

Re: gEDA-user: dbus connection error

2008-08-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
> I have installed the binary release of gEDA on a RH > machine. gschem works OK but when starting PCB i get : What specific version of RedHat? In theory, the binary release of gEDA should handle all dbus issues for you and does not need anything else on any GNU/Linux OS released after October 20

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread DJ Delorie
No trick, it just doesn't work the way you want. Draw the outer polygon as a complex shape with holes in it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

2008-08-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:21:47 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Is there some trick I don't know for insetting a smaller rectangle > inside a larger one that gives me automatic clearance? You may do the island with a single pad footprint. Since a few months pads can be defined with rectangles rather than

Re: gEDA-user: dbus connection error

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 06:26 +0100, ST de Feber wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed the binary release of gEDA on a RH > machine. gschem works OK but when starting PCB i get : > > >>pcb_dbus: DBus connection Error (Failed to connect > to socket /tmp/dbus-PAROTiGphM: Connection refused) Old R