Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:06 +, Ineiev wrote: Probably the function should be rewritten almost completely. I'll try tomorrow. And this is what comes in the attachment. First, I suggest computations against the centerlines of arcs; this simplifies the geometry and does not impose limitations

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Ineiev
On 11/13/09, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: The OpenGL hid won't render that properly, but that is my bug ;). I just assumed rx == ry == radius, and clearly that might not be the case if people start editing their files manually ;) This is not the greatest bug about elliptic arcs; IMO

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Stephan Boettcher
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com writes: The file format and internal data formats support it, but there's no way other than editing the file to set width and height to different values. I do like that fact that the file format supports more general features. But in this case I may rather prefer

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42:33AM +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 17:03 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: The file format and internal data formats support it, but there's no way other than editing the file to set width and height to different values. The OpenGL hid won't

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Ineiev
On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42:33AM +, Peter Clifton wrote: Anyway, right now you won't be able to produce the corresponding photoplotter files. While as far as I know Gerber only allows circular interpolation:

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:28:33AM +, Ineiev wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:06 +, Ineiev wrote: Probably the function should be rewritten almost completely. I'll try tomorrow. And this is what comes in the attachment. First, I suggest computations against the centerlines of

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:13:08 +, Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42:33AM +, Peter Clifton wrote: Anyway, right now you won't be able to produce the corresponding photoplotter files. While as far as I know

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:13:08AM +, Ineiev wrote: On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42:33AM +, Peter Clifton wrote: Anyway, right now you won't be able to produce the corresponding photoplotter files. While as far as I know Gerber

gEDA-user: rotatable curvy lines in pcb

2009-11-13 Thread John Griessen
Peter TB Brett wrote: On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: IMO if PCB would fully support such complicated curves, it would better support something general like beziers; it would not be much harder, but more useful. I agree -- Bezier splines are much more useful and flexible

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread John Griessen
Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:31 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: OTOH, I'd like to be able to have arc segments as boundary for polygons, since it would simplify some common microwave structures. Harry suggested this in a comment in his polygon code - it would make things like

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread DJ Delorie
The gerber exporter manually draws non-round arcs by breaking them into individual line segments. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: rotatable curvy lines in pcb

2009-11-13 Thread DJ Delorie
What if a plugin created line segments to approximate ellipses and splines? PCBs plugin structure doesn't allow for adding tools or object types, just actions and hids. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Ineiev
And this is another fix --- for IsPointOnArc(). The sample o.pcb is an extraction of teardropped OSDCU board. Cheers, Ineiev o.pcb Description: Binary data 0001-fix-IsPointOnArc.patch Description: Binary data ___ geda-user mailing list

gEDA-user: Get me out

2009-11-13 Thread Lance Earl
Because of the steep learning curve, I dropped gEDA in favor of Kicad some months ago. Since then I have unsubscribed myself from this list half a dozen times. Yet my inbox continues to be flooded with gEDA stuff. Is there an administrator out there somewhere who can get me off of

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-13 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 11:46 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: I am always pleased by the high level of electronics knowledge displayed by the folks on this list. The contributions are very interesting and educational. Agreed. I'm both pleased and very,

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 19:09 +, Michael Sokolov wrote: Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: The sample o.pcb is an extraction of teardropped OSDCU board. What exactly are these teardrops and what is their benefit? Just curious. MS Smooth transmission from traces to Vias/Pin. More

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Sokolov
Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: The sample o.pcb is an extraction of teardropped OSDCU board. What exactly are these teardrops and what is their benefit? Just curious. MS ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Get me out

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 20:04 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: http://www.gpleda.org/mailinglists.html To unsubscribe send an email to the admin list address with the following in the body: unsubscribe LIST-NAME I think that instruction relates to the old majordemo mailing lists, not the

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and pcb status and minigration from Eagle

2009-11-13 Thread Steven Michalske
[*] I release absolutely all my creations into public domain as a matter of religious philosophy, but whether or not anyone else likes them, cares about them or finds them useful is often of little concern to me. :-) I'm an isolationist. You've been warned. But I still enjoy hearing

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and pcb status and minigration from Eagle

2009-11-13 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Dan, On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 19:48 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: Stefan Salewski wrote: KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet. When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more professional, so I chose

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Arc intersection connectivity bug

2009-11-13 Thread Ineiev
On 11/13/09, Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: And this is another fix --- for IsPointOnArc(). The sample o.pcb is an extraction of teardropped OSDCU board. Next versions: fixed signs of second atan2 arguments; no DRC errors on whole teardropped OSDCU board. Pardon for offtopic, Ineiev

Re: gEDA-user: symbol files

2009-11-13 Thread Dan McMahill
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:36:54 +, Kelvin Gardiner wrote: I'm trying to create some new AVR symbols. Can the footprint section of a symbol file have more than one footprint listed. Unfortunately not. This is one of my favorite feature requests: Let the user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20091103

2009-11-13 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi, On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:43 +, Ineiev wrote: On 11/12/09, Bert Timmerman bert.timmer...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 11/7/09, Chitlesh GOORAH chitlesh.goo...@gmail.com wrote: I like it as it will help me spin off a major release notes for FEL-13 based on it. e.g for FEL-12