gEDA-user: Are some of our standard footprints tiny??

2008-09-21 Thread Ben Jackson
Look at: http://www.gedasymbols.org/scripts/search.cgi?key=0603 Are the CAPC*, and RES* footprints way too small? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Deformed undesired tiny square

2008-09-21 Thread Andrea Grillini
DJ Delorie wrote: The square (black hollow diamond) is the mark used to identify the origin of each element. Normally it's on pin 1 or the centroid of the element, but it can be put anywhere. So I guess I'm in the second situation, anywhere ;-) ... Can you see any way to move it in a less

Re: gEDA-user: Deformed undesired tiny square

2008-09-21 Thread Andrea Grillini
Peter Clifton wrote: The squares (diamond?) you're seeing look like they are element origin marks for one of the items on the page. How can I tell what is the item? The footprint I drew is simple and its text source is simple, where could be the trick in it? Thanks A.

Re: gEDA-user: Are some of our standard footprints tiny??

2008-09-21 Thread David Kuehling
Ben == Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at: http://www.gedasymbols.org/scripts/search.cgi?key=0603 Are the CAPC*, and RES* footprints way too small? CAPC0603 is *not* a 0603. The CAPC* and RES* footprints use metric units, the CAPC0603 corresponds to a 0201 mil footprint. For the

Re: gEDA-user: Are some of our standard footprints tiny??

2008-09-21 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Sonntag, den 21.09.2008, 12:54 +0200 schrieb David Kuehling: Are the CAPC*, and RES* footprints way too small? CAPC0603 is *not* a 0603. The CAPC* and RES* footprints use metric units, the CAPC0603 corresponds to a 0201 mil footprint. For the 0603 mil footprint use CAPC1608*. See

Re: gEDA-user: Deformed undesired tiny square

2008-09-21 Thread DJ Delorie
Can you see any way to move it in a less unpleasant position? You have to edit the footprint. Old style footprints, you have to edit all the parts of the footprint (the mark is the origin of the footprint's coordinate system). New style, you edit the Mark() entry. Then you have to replace

Re: gEDA-user: the peril of ascii file formats

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Sokolov
John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are your non-X11 schematic methods coming Michael? cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/fs1/IFCTF-cvs co ueda It's coming along. The project has been on hold for a while as I've been dealing with other life priorities, but I'll be able to resume it

gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread John Luciani
Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw. Pictures of the MIT Gehry building are at the bottom of the page. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org ___

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread Stuart Brorson
Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw. Interestingly, I biked by the Flea at about 7:30am this morning. I was on my way to the Hub on Wheels Boston-wide bike ride with my buddy. We stopped at the

Re: gEDA-user: the peril of ascii file formats

2008-09-21 Thread John Griessen
Michael Sokolov wrote: Oh yes, it's tied in with netlist creation very well, although my schematics aren't ASCII art, they are non-WYSIWYG PostScript. Oh, sorry bout the misunderstanding. I was remembering some discussions on the list with ascii-art and presumed that was your preferred

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread evan foss
I think that is a gyroscope. Those things connecting the rings are likely resolvers or encoders of some kind. On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread Steve Morss
John Luciani wrote: Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw. Pictures of the MIT Gehry building are at the bottom of the page. (* jcl *) You think those Enigma machines are real? They are

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread evan foss
On 9/21/08, Steve Morss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Luciani wrote: Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw. Pictures of the MIT Gehry building are at the bottom of the page. (* jcl

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread Larry Doolittle
Guys - On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:53:29PM -0400, evan foss wrote: On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I did see this strange contraption from the street: http://www.luciani.org/photos/pic1/2008-09-21-mit-flea/IMG_1612.JPG Do you have any idea what it is? I think

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread John Luciani
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Steve Morss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You think those Enigma machines are real? They are pretty historic (and probably aren't too many of them). I think some of them are real and others are reproductions. The display varies from year to year. This year's

Re: gEDA-user: A little tribute...

2008-09-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, now that I fell so much in love with gEDA and GnuCap alike - I've created a little tutorial for total beginners about both. I hope you enjoy it. http://johannes-bauer.com/electronics/ This is a really nice tutorial and really useful to those users who want to use gnucap and gEDA.

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread Dave N6NZ
John Luciani wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Steve Morss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You think those Enigma machines are real? They are pretty historic (and probably aren't too many of them). I think some of them are real and others are reproductions. The display varies from year

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Enigmas are very interesting machines. This summer I had a chance to take a tour of the NSA museum, and they have several, of different configurations. A couple were out in the open for people to type on, so of course I had to encode a few