Re: gEDA-user: Light? Heavy? Reuse...

2009-01-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> It seems to me you're arguing for a plugin mechanism for gnetlist, > too. Perhaps, or something more global. I.e. it would be nice if you *could* query these extra databases from within gschem or gattrib, for example, to see what the inferred attributes are, or to see what the options are so

Re: gEDA-user: Light? Heavy? Reuse...

2009-01-20 Thread John Doty
On Jan 19, 2009, at 7:47 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> If BOM is the central place of information, then it may be very >> useful to have a way to transfer some information back into >> schematics or pcb file. For example we may change value or footprint >> in the BOM and want to transfer this inform

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing arcs in pcb

2009-01-20 Thread John Griessen
Rob Butts wrote: >I got it. I just wasn't moving the center enough. Sorry to waist >peoples time. Oh, since arc drawing has been by text editor and not necessarily documented before a year ago, it's not wasting time. Few people on the list today. John G

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing arcs in pcb

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Butts
I got it. I just wasn't moving the center enough. Sorry to waist peoples time. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Rob Butts <[1]r.but...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm trying to draw an arc in on a footprint. I'm able to draw it but I can't get the arc's center point to ch

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:40:28 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be documented > somewhere, but I'm not sure where It should be considered a bug to be fixed. I had pcb crash on me because of this. This is a major newbie trap. Either gsch2pcb shou

gEDA-user: Drawing arcs in pcb

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Butts
I'm trying to draw an arc in on a footprint. I'm able to draw it but I can't get the arc's center point to change when I bring it up in pcb. Can someone please look at the way I created the footprint, shown below, and how I'm changing the location of the center point and see what

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be > documented somewhere, but I'm not sure where ;) It's documented in the "Netlist File" section: If a NAME ends with a lower-case letter, all lower-case letters are stripped from the end of the NAME to determine the matching layo

gEDA-user: Need to fix gschem recent files!

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Clifton
Whilst talking about log files, I realised that I have literally hundreds, if not thousands of "recent" files listed in gschem. The ~/.gEDA/gschem-recent-files format is not very nice either.. [Recent Files] File=..(44052 characters later, with no whitespace) we reach EOF. I'd propose o

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:30 +0300, ine...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello, Patrick; On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to make the rate net, I get: Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:30 +0300, ine...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hello, Patrick; > > On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > When I try to make the rate net, I get: > > Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist > > There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(), > for (i = j; i > 0 && Elem

Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread ineiev
Hello, Patrick; On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > When I try to make the rate net, I get: > Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(), for (i = j; i > 0 && ElementName[i - 1] >= 'a'; i--); I think this may mean something like slotting (

gEDA-user: What is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello trying to understand what is wrong is this file, I finally decided to submit you. When I try to make the rate net, I get: Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist Of course one connection is missing, but I cannot figure out why. Thank -- --- ==