Re: gEDA-user: gschem snap parameters?

2009-09-23 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Kai-Martin, On Dienstag, 22. September 2009, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Sometimes, gschem nets shows an annoying tendency to snap to a not so near node. Is there a way to tune the distance at which the gschem net snaps? This is a hardcoded feature ;-) It's not possible to change this with

Re: gEDA-user: gschem snap parameters?

2009-09-23 Thread Duncan Drennan
- /* define how far the cursor could be to activate magnetic */ #define MAGNETIC_PIN_REACH 50 #define MAGNETIC_NET_REACH 20 #define MAGNETIC_BUS_REACH 30 What do the values actually mean? Is it 50 grid units, 50 pixels, 50 what? I've also experience some frustration with this

Re: gEDA-user: gschem snap parameters?

2009-09-23 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Duncan, On Mittwoch, 23. September 2009, Duncan Drennan wrote: - /* define how far the cursor could be to activate magnetic */ #define MAGNETIC_PIN_REACH 50 #define MAGNETIC_NET_REACH 20 #define MAGNETIC_BUS_REACH 30 What do the values actually mean? Is it 50 grid units, 50

Re: gEDA-user: gschem snap parameters?

2009-09-23 Thread Duncan Drennan
You can temporarly disable the magnetic net with the CTRL key. I guess that's what you need. Thanks! That does help :) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Error in DRC

2009-09-23 Thread Carlos Nieves Ónega
Hi Tony, wr is not a valid pintype. Do you have any symbol with this attribute attached to a pin? Valid pintypes are: unknown in out io oc oe pas tp tri clk pwr unconnected Regards, Carlos El jue, 17-09-2009 a las 19:17 -0400, Tony Radice escribió: Ladies and Gentlemen - When attempting

gEDA-user: Disappearing PCB Footprint details

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
Update: Ladies and Gentlemen - I experimented with the footprints I had developed in a unique directory (/home/comp/pwb_footprints) and had no success with seeing them in the pcb tool. As a point of interest: When I start the pcb tool this footprint library *directory* was identified, but the

Re: gEDA-user: Error in DRC

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
Carlos - I honestly do not know - it may be a typo error on my part of a piece of pwr. I'll open the schematic file and scan for the wr. Thanks for the reply!! T. On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 21:43 +0200, Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote: Hi Tony, wr is not a valid pintype. Do you have any symbol with

Re: gEDA-user: Disappearing PCB Footprint details

2009-09-23 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:10 -0400, Tony Radice wrote: Update: Ladies and Gentlemen - I experimented with the footprints I had developed in a unique directory (/home/comp/pwb_footprints) and had no success with seeing them in the pcb tool. I think most people use gschem2pcb script to

Re: gEDA-user: device attribute in master attribute list

2009-09-23 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 12:35 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Cite from the master attribute list: /-- device= is the device name of the symbol and is required by gnetlist. \-- However, I forgot the device attribute in some of my symbols and gnetlist did not seem to

Re: gEDA-user: sym files sorting

2009-09-23 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 14:34 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The gschem gui seems to append new items to the bottom of the file. As a consequence, symbols done with the GUI are a pain to edit in a text editor. Pins mix with comments and attributes in no particular order. It would be nice, if

Re: gEDA-user: Error in DRC

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
Carlos - Thanks for the reply. I corrected the part that had the wr attribute - I did indeed mistype pwr. That was the good news - The bad news: I still get the stack overflow error below, and now the output of the .drc file is: Checking non-numbered parts... Checking duplicated

gEDA-user: Exploding BOM

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
Ladies and Gents - Looks like I may not hit every error possible, but I'm gonna give it my best shot at as many as possible... Latest dilemma: When I issue the netlist command with the argument -g bom, I get a valid bom. When I issue the netlist command with ANY other form of the

Re: gEDA-user: Exploding BOM

2009-09-23 Thread DJ Delorie
Try http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Feb-2008/msg00277.html ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Exploding BOM

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
DJ - Added the (debug-options (list 'stack 20)) command to my system-gafrc file. Worked like a charm!! THANK YOU!!! Tony On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 21:12 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Try http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Feb-2008/msg00277.html

Re: gEDA-user: Disappearing PCB Footprint details

2009-09-23 Thread Cesar Strauss
Stefan Salewski wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:10 -0400, Tony Radice wrote: Update: Ladies and Gentlemen - I experimented with the footprints I had developed in a unique directory (/home/comp/pwb_footprints) and had no success with seeing them in the pcb tool. I think most people use

gEDA-user: PCB Renumber Was/Is Once Again

2009-09-23 Thread Mike Hansen
I brought up this topic a couple of years ago and left it for dead at the time but now have the question again: Is there a script that can be performed on a PCB design that will renumber the components on the board in some spatial order(say starting at the upper left hand corner

Re: gEDA-user: Disappearing PCB Footprint details

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Radice
Stefan - I do use gsch2pcb to develop the pcb population data, netlist and population command file. The issue is that the footprints that I developed that were not in the issue library were not listed in the pcb library tool on invoking pcb. Interestingly, the footprints showed up in the buffer

Re: gEDA-user: Exploding BOM

2009-09-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 24 September 2009 02:10:48 Tony Radice wrote: Hints are greatly appreciated - my next step is to try a different netlist routine. (Anthony Shanks) Did you try -g bom2? I thought I'd eliminated the possibility of stack overflows in that backend. IMHO it's also superior to -g