Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:29 PM, timecop wrote: > ulp is eagle script file. Ahhh > i assumed if you wanted to convert something, you'd have eagle running. Just barely, and just recently. And not for much total time yet. > im pretty sure ulp can access to library data as well, so something to

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread timecop
ulp is eagle script file. i assumed if you wanted to convert something, you'd have eagle running. im pretty sure ulp can access to library data as well, so something to output ascii can be easily written. diptrace is payware pcbcad, but freely downloadable version also includes these 2 conversion

Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

2010-02-22 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:02:43 -0800 Jared Casper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > I'm tempted to pay someone a bounty to kill those with fire ;) > > > > (or certainly fix the message window's focus-stealing, attention > > grabbing - behaviour. The same is true of

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:08 PM, timecop wrote: > Diptrace has a pair of ulp scripts to convert eagle project to ascii > schematic and pcb. OK, although I don't know what either Diptrace or ulp are. Sounds like a good place to start, though. I'm wondering how the library issue would be handled. P

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread timecop
Diptrace has a pair of ulp scripts to convert eagle project to ascii schematic and pcb. after some creative editing to make output format match geda, it should be fairly feature compelte On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, al davis wrote: > On Monday 22 February 2010, Dave N6NZ wrote: >> Is there an

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread al davis
On Monday 22 February 2010, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Is there any automated Eagle to gEDA conversion path? > > (He says hopefully, but knowing it's highly unlikely.) No .. but since you mention it, it is time to ask again for help in making something that will do this. I proposed a translator

Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

2010-02-22 Thread Jared Casper
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > I'm tempted to pay someone a bounty to kill those with fire ;) > > (or certainly fix the message window's focus-stealing, attention > grabbing - behaviour. The same is true of the netlist window when you > press "F" on a net.) > Patch attach

gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
Hi, Is there any automated Eagle to gEDA conversion path? (He says hopefully, but knowing it's highly unlikely.) -dave ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

2010-02-22 Thread gene glick
(or certainly fix the message window's focus-stealing, attention grabbing - behaviour. The same is true of the netlist window when you press "F" on a net.) That one burns me often :D ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.se

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-02-22 Thread Anthony Blake
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Larry Battraw wrote: >   On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Anthony Blake <[1]tony...@gmail.com> >   wrote: > >   Ethan Swint wrote: > >     The last update on the toporouter looks like it was last June.  Any >     news since then, or is it waiting for me to jump in

Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 17:03 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > Is there a way to disable the Message Log and Library windows by > default, in PCB? I'm finding I keep these either hidden or closed a > lot more than I keep them open. I'm tempted to pay someone a bounty to kill those with fire ;) (o

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Battraw
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Anthony Blake <[1]tony...@gmail.com> wrote: Ethan Swint wrote: The last update on the toporouter looks like it was last June. Any news since then, or is it waiting for me to jump in to the code? ;) It looks fantastic. I don't get a

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was "why separate xgsch2pcb?")

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:31 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > Steven Michalske wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, if you were to temporarily make a copy of the contents > > [...] > > Changing out the symlink for a real directory full of files didn't > help, but I believe I have found the problem: >

gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

2010-02-22 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
Is there a way to disable the Message Log and Library windows by default, in PCB? I'm finding I keep these either hidden or closed a lot more than I keep them open. -- "There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves." http://star

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was "why separate xgsch2pcb?")

2010-02-22 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
Steven Michalske wrote: > Out of curiosity, if you were to temporarily make a copy of the contents > [...] Changing out the symlink for a real directory full of files didn't help, but I believe I have found the problem: Normally when you reference a stock footprint in a schematic, you do so by

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-02-22 Thread Anthony Blake
Ethan Swint wrote: The last update on the toporouter looks like it was last June. Any news since then, or is it waiting for me to jump in to the code? ;) It looks fantastic. I don't get a lot of time atm.. please jump in =) FWIW - I think a better metric of router performance (instead of to

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was "why separate xgsch2pcb?")

2010-02-22 Thread Steven Michalske
On Feb 21, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:14:42 -0500 (EST) Stuart Brorson wrote: There is a bug in the git version of PCB. If you put your newlib footprints in a directory, the library import stuff can't find them. The library import stuff looks in *subdi

gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-02-22 Thread Ethan Swint
Hi- The last update on the toporouter looks like it was last June. Any news since then, or is it waiting for me to jump in to the code? ;) It looks fantastic. FWIW - I think a better metric of router performance (instead of total track length as used on the web page http://www.wand.net.nz

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv export to png

2010-02-22 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Julian writes: > Stephan, > Yes, you can do it, however you can't use the project file for the > process. Here's how: > > gerbv --export=png --dpi=600 --foreground=#ffff > --foreground=#00ff0088 file1.gbx file2.gbx ...and so on > > Hope this helps. Cheers-- Absolutely, thanks! No