Re: gEDA-user: libgerbv DRC help

2009-04-20 Thread Duncan Drennan
> If there is a better approach, or you have any other ideas, please let me > know. I was chatting to a friend and he was telling me about research that he was involved with which used diffusion maps to determine how fires spread through a forest. The basic principle is that you can determine inf

gEDA-user: libgerbv DRC help

2009-04-20 Thread John Wells
Hello, I'm trying to use libgerbv to perform some rudimentary DRC of a set of RS274x files. Specifically, I'm trying to calculate minimum track spacing. After doing some initial playing around, it appears that treating it as a vector problem, by enumerating net vectors and comparing them with n

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread Steven Michalske
On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Joerg wrote: > John Luciani wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rob Butts >> wrote: >>> What is the standard refdes for a crystal, I'm blanking? The >>> generic >>> is a U, is this correct? >> >> I use X >> > > Yep, that's quite customary. It is related

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread Joerg
John Luciani wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rob Butts wrote: >> What is the standard refdes for a crystal, I'm blanking? The generic >> is a U, is this correct? > > I use X > Yep, that's quite customary. It is related to the short form used in radio communications from the days

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Rob Butts wrote: >What is the standard refdes for a crystal, I'm blanking? The generic >is a U, is this correct? > > > > > > > ___ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread Rob Butts
Thank you On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM, DJ Delorie <[1...@delorie.com> wrote: I use X but Wikipedia says Y [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_designator ___ geda-user mailing list [3]geda-u...@moria.seul.org [4]ht

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread DJ Delorie
I use X but Wikipedia says Y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_designator ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread John Luciani
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rob Butts wrote: > > What is the standard refdes for a crystal, I'm blanking? The generic > is a U, is this correct? I use X (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. http://www.luciani.org _

gEDA-user: Standard refdes for a crystal?

2009-04-20 Thread Rob Butts
What is the standard refdes for a crystal, I'm blanking? The generic is a U, is this correct? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Two pin variable capacitor symbol with 3 pin footprint

2009-04-20 Thread Steven Michalske
On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:34 -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: >> On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:06 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: >>> - use the 3-pin footprint and connect pin three

Re: gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:11 -0400, al davis wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > Is there no gEDA included in Kubuntu? > > of course it is .. I assumed that Kurt wants the latest > development checkout. > His first message was: On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:58 -0600, KURT P

Re: gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread al davis
On Monday 20 April 2009, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Is there no gEDA included in Kubuntu? of course it is .. I assumed that Kurt wants the latest development checkout. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/ma

Re: gEDA-user: Two pin variable capacitor symbol with 3 pin footprint

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:34 -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: > On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:06 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > > > >> > >> - use the 3-pin footprint and connect pin three with a net= attribute > >> on the symbol > >> > > > > Th

Re: gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:24:36 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Is there no gEDA included in Kubuntu? If not, activating "universe" in the package manager should be sufficient to make it available. However, a colleague downstairs had some issues with the GTK-GUI in kubuntu: The layer buttons were

Re: gEDA-user: Two pin variable capacitor symbol with 3 pin footprint

2009-04-20 Thread Steven Michalske
On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:06 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > >> >> - use the 3-pin footprint and connect pin three with a net= attribute >> on the symbol >> > > This idea in not new to me, I tried something similar with an OpAmp > with > m

Re: gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 06:22 -0600, KURT PETERS wrote: > Since my last email, I'm not trying the Makefile included with the >source code and am trying to install 1.5.2 in Kubuntu 8.1.0 still. >I can make configure, but when I make install, I get this error. Any >thoughts? Is there no g

Re: gEDA-user: Found pins without the 'pintype' attribute:

2009-04-20 Thread John P. Doty
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:37:09 -0600, John Doty wrote: > > >> You can ignore this. You can ignore most complaints from drc2: its model >> of reality is that you are designing pure logic circuits using a single >> logic family. >> >> To the developers: why bludgeon newbies

Re: gEDA-user: Found pins without the 'pintype' attribute:

2009-04-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:37:09 -0600, John Doty wrote: > You can ignore this. You can ignore most complaints from drc2: its model > of reality is that you are designing pure logic circuits using a single > logic family. > > To the developers: why bludgeon newbies with the "need" to use a tool > tha

Re: gEDA-user: boards: three more usb-gpio pods

2009-04-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:30:07 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Nice! The global pulls and teardrops make for a very > distinctive-looking layout. The look is reminiscent of my "museum" :-) I pulled some pcbs from an obsolete Heinzinger high voltage supply. According to the notes in copper, they wer

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist - Found unknown component. Refdes..

2009-04-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
"John P. Doty" writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> "John P. Doty" writes: > I note that using a SPICE netlister on a schematic intended for PCB > layout is not generally useful. A SPICE simulation needs sources that > aren't in the schematic, and SPICE will think your connectors are FETs > (J) an

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist - Found unknown component. Refdes..

2009-04-20 Thread John P. Doty
Csanyi Pal wrote: > "John P. Doty" writes: > > >> Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> I'm using gedasuite20080328 installed from tarball. >>> >>> When I'm running: >>> gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb -o WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.net >>> WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.sch >gnetlist_error >>> >>> I get the messages: >>> >>

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist - Found unknown component. Refdes..

2009-04-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
"John P. Doty" writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> I'm using gedasuite20080328 installed from tarball. >> >> When I'm running: >> gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb -o WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.net >> WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.sch >gnetlist_error >> >> I get the messages: >> > Much, perhaps all, of your trouble seems to

Re: gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
KURT PETERS writes: > Since my last email, I'm not trying the Makefile included with the > source code and am trying to install 1.5.2 in Kubuntu 8.1.0 still. > > > > I can make configure, but when I make install, I get this error. >Any thoughts? >I'm not sure what olib.c is or what the

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist - Found unknown component. Refdes..

2009-04-20 Thread John P. Doty
Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using gedasuite20080328 installed from tarball. > > When I'm running: > gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb -o WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.net > WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.sch >gnetlist_error > > I get the messages: > Much, perhaps all, of your trouble seems to be due to your use of the t

gEDA-user: Compile from source Try 2

2009-04-20 Thread KURT PETERS
Since my last email, I'm not trying the Makefile included with the source code and am trying to install 1.5.2 in Kubuntu 8.1.0 still. I can make configure, but when I make install, I get this error. Any thoughts? I'm not sure what olib.c is or what the error means. I did instal

Re: gEDA-user: Two pin variable capacitor symbol with 3 pin footprint

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:06 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > > - use the 3-pin footprint and connect pin three with a net= attribute > on the symbol > This idea in not new to me, I tried something similar with an OpAmp with multiple power pins -- now i prefer a special footprint. I have 8 o

Re: gEDA-user: Two pin variable capacitor symbol with 3 pin footprint

2009-04-20 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Stefan Salewski writes: > I have variable capacitors (trimmer) which two pins as symbol, but the > footprint has three pins, pin 1 and 3 are connected internally. [...] > - Make a copy of a true 3 pin footprint and rename pin 3 to 1 (this is > what I did first.) > > - Use the 3 pin footprint, l

Re: gEDA-user: SystemPerl "Integer overflow in

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:23:07PM -0700, John Alfredo wrote: > >I'm installing SystemPerl-1.311 (SystemC perl libs), and when I run >the "make tests" it complains on 6 of the tests with the message >"Integer overflow in hexadecimal number at ...". Has anybody else >run into this