Re: gEDA-user: How do I get the router to go where I want it to?

2010-02-17 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:50:11PM +0100, Maciej Pijanka wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jim Lynch wrote: I have a board I'm developing (maybe) that is a backplane. It has 9 edge connectors mounted on it and when I went to autoroute it Oh Lord! I've never seen such a mess! Traces

gEDA-user: Plans for a new PCB snapshot?

2010-02-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
Hello, I am currently working on the gEDA 1.6.1 ebuild for gentoo -- should be easy, because it is mainly a bugfix version, but of course I have to do some testing... The pcb-20091103 snapshot did not make it in the official Gentoo tree till now. (I send the ebuild to the developers last year.)

Re: gEDA-user: how to push/commit a new vbpp to geda?

2010-02-17 Thread Martin d Anjou
[snip] How do I upload my updates to vbpp to the above repository? Or should a new repo be created here instead http://git.gpleda.org/ ? Have you tried contacting the original author of vbpp? Based on the README this would be: Jimen Ching jch...@flex.com I sent an email to Jimen

gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread DJ Delorie
Some of you know I've been working with the local high school's FIRST robotics team. Here's a status update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VfT5_mEn0 At 0:49 there's a photo of me teaching one of the freshman how to assemble a circuit board full of 0603's and PTH parts. The board was

gEDA-user: right-mouse-click rotate

2010-02-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
I just used the before-pours of Peter Cliftons pcb repository for my current project. A small change in the user interface made a big difference: Right-mouse-click rotates the object the component under the mouse clockwise by 90°. This is a big relief during placement. I hope this feature will

Re: gEDA-user: right-mouse-click rotate

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:11 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I just used the before-pours of Peter Cliftons pcb repository for my current project. A small change in the user interface made a big difference: Right-mouse-click rotates the object the component under the mouse clockwise by 90°.

gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Bob Paddock
Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? All the usual, automatic robot, players I've looked at only do 0.062 tick boards. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Jason
Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? Advanced Circuits http://www.4pcb.com will do them, you just have to move away from the prototype stovepipe (no soldermask, 0.062, no silk). Prices are pretty reasonable and they are great to work with on

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread John Luciani
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jason [1]g...@lakedaemon.net wrote: Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? Advanced Circuits [2]http://www.4pcb.com will do them, you just have to move away from the prototype stovepipe (no

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Jason
Sorry if the format was jacked up on the last one. I had turned off some formatting in thunderbird for some patches I was submitting... thx, Jason. Jason wrote: Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? Advanced Circuits http://www.4pcb.com will do

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:45:22PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? I'm not there to measure it but I think the boards I got back from Sierra Proto Express's no touch service were 0.032. Thinner than I expected, anyway! -- Ben Jackson

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Jason [1]g...@lakedaemon.net wrote: Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? Advanced Circuits [2]http://www.4pcb.com will do them, you just have to move away from the prototype stovepipe (no

gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
This caught me out today. Consider this circuit: http://vivara.net/images/gschem_example.png The symbols are from the standard library, specifically: /usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-1.sym /usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/power/generic-power.sym Anyone want to guess what gsch2pcb will make of

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Michalske
On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Mark Rages wrote: This caught me out today. Consider this circuit: http://vivara.net/images/gschem_example.png The symbols are from the standard library, specifically: /usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-1.sym

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Mark Rages wrote: This caught me out today. Consider this circuit: http://vivara.net/images/gschem_example.png The symbols are from the standard library, specifically:

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Michalske
here is what i got V3 R1-1 V5 R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Mark Rages wrote: untitled.sch ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: here is what i got V3  R1-1 V5  R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 OK, here is what I get: Vcc R1-1 R1-2 also with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 I don't think there's anything too weird in

Re: gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, DJ Delorie wrote: Some of you know I've been working with the local high school's FIRST robotics team. Here's a status update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VfT5_mEn0 At 0:49 there's a photo of me teaching one of the freshman how to assemble a circuit board

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Geoff Swan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: here is what i got V3  R1-1 V5  R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 Ditto. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:07:29 Mark Rages wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: here is what i got V3 R1-1 V5 R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 OK, here is what I get: Vcc R1-1 R1-2 also with

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Geoff Swan
Please run gschlas -e filename.sch and post the result to the list. Thanks, cat untitled.sch~ v 20090328 2 C 4 4 0 0 0 title-B.sym C 47800 46400 1 0 0 resistor-1.sym { T 48100 46800 5 10 0 0 0 0 1 device=RESISTOR T 48000 46700 5 10 1 1 0 0 1 refdes=R1 T 47600 46200 5 10 1 0 0 0 1

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:07:29 Mark Rages wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: here is what i got V3  R1-1 V5  R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:19:43 Geoff Swan wrote: Please run gschlas -e filename.sch and post the result to the list. Thanks, cat untitled.sch~ [snip] Hi Geoff, You didn't actually post the embedded schematic. In any case, yours appears to be working correctly, so... :-)

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:20:26 Mark Rages wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:07:29 Mark Rages wrote: I don't think there's anything too weird in my Ubuntu 9.04 system. I just created a new user and

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:20:26 Mark Rages wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:07:29 Mark Rages wrote: I don't think there's

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:41:07 Mark Rages wrote: OK, I created a new user with an empty home directory. t...@midwesttelecine:~$ gnetlist -i -v untitled.sch gEDA/gnetlist version 1.5.2.20090328 I'm sorry Mark: I've compiled and installed 1.5.2, and I still can't reproduce this

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:56 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:41:07 Mark Rages wrote: OK, I created a new user with an empty home directory. t...@midwesttelecine:~$ gnetlist -i -v untitled.sch gEDA/gnetlist version 1.5.2.20090328 I'm sorry Mark: I've

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread John Doty
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: I'm sorry Mark: I've compiled and installed 1.5.2, and I still can't reproduce Mark: post your gafrc. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com ___

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Rages
Ah! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Peter Clifton [1]pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:56 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:41:07 Mark Rages wrote: OK, I created a new user with an empty home directory.

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:11 -0600, Mark Rages wrote: Ah! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Peter Clifton [1]pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:56 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:41:07 Mark Rages wrote: OK, I created a new user

Re: gEDA-user: right-mouse-click rotate

2010-02-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:52:50 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Perhaps the key-binding has come from somewhere else?, Hmm, there are a few gpcb-menu.res files scattered on my hard disk. How does pcb decide which to pull in? or you have a really really old checkout of my branch? Well, it is the

Re: gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Bushroe
I am also mentoring a FIRST Robotics team. We have already had one session on trying to learn gEDA/PCB and have them etch their own boards using the PCB-in-a-box kit. But since most are running Windoze or MAC, most of the time went to just configuring a KNOPPIX live CD loaded with

Re: gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread DJ Delorie
D.J.D.; For those who don't know - DJ is my name, not my initials. For instilling in these young folks, a sense of pride in laying it out and doing it right, we need a squad of cheerleaders to put on a show but I'm fresh out of those. I think that's the whole point of FIRST - For

Re: gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread DJ Delorie
I also want to have a simple kit for them to do a manual servo/Victor controller that they can use next year to test servo and motor drive parts without having the whole robot powered up or the main software running. I am planning on using an ATTiny24 to read 2 1-turn pots and an analog

Re: gEDA-user: FIRST robotics...

2010-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, DJ Delorie wrote: D.J.D.; For those who don't know - DJ is my name, not my initials. Oops, sorry. I didn't do that intentionally, I just assumed that the DJ was for David James or some such. My apologies. For instilling in these young folks, a sense of pride

Re: gEDA-user: right-mouse-click rotate

2010-02-17 Thread Alberto Maccioni
There are 2 files in the src directory: pcb-menu.res and gpcb-menu.res; I think one is for gtk, the other for lesstif. But does this mean that you have to recompile to make changes to the key bindings? A.M. 2010/2/18 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:52:50 +,

Re: gEDA-user: right-mouse-click rotate

2010-02-17 Thread DJ Delorie
There are 2 files in the src directory: pcb-menu.res and gpcb-menu.res; I think one is for gtk, the other for lesstif. But does this mean that you have to recompile to make changes to the key bindings? No, just put your modified copy in ~/.pcb/