Re: gEDA-user: Can't open default_font error in PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Duncan Drennan
change either the symbol or the footprint to match. Wouldn't it also be possible to use gsch2pcb and then run the script file it generates? If I understand its function correctly it renames the pads of the footprints. ___ geda-user mailing list

gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread Stefan Salewski
Most pads and pins of our footprint libraries have solder mask relief which extends the copper pad to allow some misalignment of solder resist. I have noticed that this extend is very different for different footprints -- from 3 to 10 mil I guess. I think this extend in more a board property

gEDA-user: openSUSE rpms (was: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.4.1-20080929 released!)

2008-10-04 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi all, I've build openSUSE rpm packages for the new version 1.4.1. The rpms are available for the openSUSE versions 10.2, 10.3 and 11.0. Note: I've finally removed all rpms from my personal rpm repository home:werner2101. All rpm packages are available in the science repository now:

Re: gEDA-user: Can't open default_font error in PCB

2008-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Wouldn't it also be possible to use gsch2pcb and then run the script file it generates? If I understand its function correctly it renames the pads of the footprints. Renames, not renumbers. A name is something like P1.5/INTB/TXD or \_RESET\_- i.e. the symbolic name or label associated with

Re: gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
There is a MinMaskGap() action to increase the mask gap to vendor minimums. What you can do is this: * Enable the mask layer * Select everything that needs the mask set * Use Ctrl-Shift-K to reduce the mask as much as you can for everything selected * :MinMaskGap(Selected,=8,mil) to

Re: gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Samstag, den 04.10.2008, 10:07 -0400 schrieb DJ Delorie: There is a MinMaskGap() action to increase the mask gap to vendor minimums. What you can do is this: * Enable the mask layer * Select everything that needs the mask set * Use Ctrl-Shift-K to reduce the mask as much as you can

Re: gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Is there something similar for copper clearing of pads/pins in polygons? Not that I'm aware of. Again, you could write one pretty easily by copying the existing one. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Duncan Drennan
I recently completed my first PCB which was done entirely with the gEDA suite. Previously I have used gschem and then output a netlist file and contracted the layout work to be done in PCAD. As I went through the learning process with the PCB layout package I noted down the questions which came up

Re: gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:17:24 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: Most of your points remind me of my own first steps in gschem/pcb. It would be nice to newbies, if they could be rectified in some way The BOM that PCB generates is far nicer than the BOM that gschem generates. The PCB BOM has one

Re: gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 10:22 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Is there something similar for copper clearing of pads/pins in polygons? Not that I'm aware of. Again, you could write one pretty easily by copying the existing one. changeclearsize(selected,10,mil) Also works for mask, if you select

Re: gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 17:17 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: The BOM that PCB generates is far nicer than the BOM that gschem generates. The PCB BOM has one type of item per line with all the corresponding refdes', while gschem creates a line per refdes. Having a PCB style BOM generator in

Re: gEDA-user: Howto make solder mask extend equal for all pads in layout?

2008-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
changeclearsize(selected,10,mil) I keep forgetting about that, because it reduces the clearance on bigger clearances too, which usually isn't what I want. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org