Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-27 Thread John Doty
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, al davis wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010, John Doty wrote: >> It looks like you're using the kind of hierarchy suitable for >> a printed circuit flow, not a SPICE/ASIC flow. I suggest >> first reading the excellent tutorial at >> http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPIC

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> right now, it's quick responding again. Because my internet is back up :-) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-27 Thread al davis
On Saturday 27 February 2010, John Doty wrote: > It looks like you're using the kind of hierarchy suitable for > a printed circuit flow, not a SPICE/ASIC flow. I suggest > first reading the excellent tutorial at > http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/intro.html. > Ouch .. That was written 6 year

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-27 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native > version of GTK? Is it currently possible to tell a running copy of gschem to open a schematic? If not, that is probably something that needs to be fixed before worryi

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread John Griessen
Dave McGuire wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Christoph Lechner wrote: you can set up multiple A records for the same name, and successive queries return all of them rotated by one. ok. but then you have a 50% chance to hit the dead node. If you have two A records, yes. Before I add

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-27 Thread gene glick
Facundo Ferrer wrote: When I try to check my circuit with drc or drc2 gnetlist finished with a buffer overflow. I don't know how to solve this. Also, I tried with spice-sdb but gnetlist finish with Killed. Have you tried this: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gnetlist __

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-27 Thread John Doty
On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Facundo Ferrer wrote: > Hi I was working on my thesis project and I'm designing a 6-bit flash > converter. The circuit has 63 comparators (made by me) , 63 inverters > (made by me) and 1 decoder (126 inputs and 6 outputs, also made by me). > I have a source f

gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-27 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi I was working on my thesis project and I'm designing a 6-bit flash converter. The circuit has 63 comparators (made by me) , 63 inverters (made by me) and 1 decoder (126 inputs and 6 outputs, also made by me). I have a source file for each component (actually more than 127 files be

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours configure with --enable-gl (Build). I get this: configure: error: You don't s

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-02-27 Thread John Luciani
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Donald Tillman <[1]...@till.com> wrote: Hey folks, What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? I use two different footprints. Both footprints have the pins inline. One footprint spaces the leads 1.39mm the other 2.60mm. The 2.60m

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:28 -0800, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: > > > I'd really *love* to be able to run the latest versions, but I'm > afraid that as a mere mortal,

gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-02-27 Thread Donald Tillman
Hey folks, What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? I'm working on a project that involves a lot of discrete transistors in TO-92 packages -- the regular style, 3 in-line, no fancy triangular pinouts or lead forming or anything. The TO92 package in pcblib-newlib seems to be lar

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Windell H. Oskay
On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi, > > Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: I'd really *love* to be able to run the latest versions, but I'm afraid that as a mere mortal, I'm nowhere close to being able to do this. I've tried several times t

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:49 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > It kinda works. You get a lot of blank icons...I think due to some > XPM problems. > > Mark Send a screenshot? What "XPM problems"? Is it because MacOS X native GTK doesn't support them, or what? A quick search revealed this: https://bu

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:56 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >> Here's one of each. :) > >> > >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ > >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ > > > > Hi, > > > > Have you ever looke

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Anderson
It kinda works. You get a lot of blank icons...I think due to some XPM problems. Mark On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native > version of GTK? > > If so, take a look at this page: > > http://gtk-osx.source

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Here's one of each. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ Hi, Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcj

gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native version of GTK? If so, take a look at this page: http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/ -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:36 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 12:20 -0800, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > > Here's one of each. :) > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ > > Hi, > > Have you ever look

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 12:20 -0800, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > Here's one of each. :) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ Hi, Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: git clone git://repo.or.c

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Windell H. Oskay
Here's one of each. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:05 AM, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > Hi, > > Could somebody please send me some screenshots of gEDA/gaf 1.6.x and/or > PCB running on Mac OSX? Pr

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Larry Doolittle wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: >> The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of >> available publication quality symbols.  If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA. >>  If I'm after a nice looking sc

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Christoph Lechner wrote: Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & round-robin dns. Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure what the DNS setup is. Ping says it is alternating. The mirror server was quick for a while after I ad

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread Christoph Lechner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave McGuire wrote: > On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:36 AM, John Griessen wrote: >>> Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & >>> round-robin >>> dns. >> >> Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure what the DNS setup >> is. >>

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Doolittle
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of > available publication quality symbols. If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA. > If I'm after a nice looking schematic I use XCircuit. I'd like to be > able to have it both

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 11:01 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > > I have an old design I could use, but if anyone else is looking to > publicize their design this way, email me a link, and l'll load it up > on a Mac and take a few screenshots. > > You may use this medium size 4 layer board: h

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

2010-02-27 Thread Alberto Maccioni
It's in the manual, I know, but to be precise it doesn't say that the gtk version looks at gpcb-menu instead of pcb-menu. I think the best way to solve this would be to create a gtk section in the same pcb-menu file. 2010/2/26 Dan McMahill : > Alberto Maccioni wrote: >> >> There are 2 files in th

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread John Luciani
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dave McGuire <[1]mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of available publication quality symbols. If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA.

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 16:52 +0100, Denis Grelich wrote: > About the bug report I don't know. I googled a little and found Peter > Clifton's complaints about it on the cairo mailing list. Complaints is not really the right term here... it was a query about the behaviour we were seeing, and the b

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:36 AM, John Griessen wrote: Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & round-robin dns. Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure what the DNS setup is. Ping says it is alternating. The mirror server was quick for a while after I added

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Charles Lepple
On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Ales Hvezda wrote: Hi, Could somebody please send me some screenshots of gEDA/gaf 1.6.x and/ or PCB running on Mac OSX? Preferably with an interesting schematic/PCBs that you don't mind sharing with the world? I have an old design I could use, but if anyon

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Denis Grelich
Am 27.02.2010, 15:40 Uhr, schrieb Ales Hvezda : Hi Denis, [snip] I'm using gEDA on Windows (after fixing that quirk with cairo making the fonts too small). gschem is fine for editing schematics, and PCB is very Out of curiosity, how did you go about running gEDA on Windows? Which of

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-27 Thread John Griessen
Greg Cunningham wrote: Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & round-robin dns. Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure what the DNS setup is. Ping says it is alternating. The mirror server was quick for a while after I added an A record at my hosting service

gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, Could somebody please send me some screenshots of gEDA/gaf 1.6.x and/or PCB running on Mac OSX? Preferably with an interesting schematic/PCBs that you don't mind sharing with the world? Thanks, -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-use

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jim Lynch wrote: > These would work for me: > [1]http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/not-quite-ready-index.html > [2]http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/doc/sampler.pdf > > In the sampler.pdf, what's that symbol that looks like a zener with a third > wire >

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Jim Lynch
These would work for me: [1]http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/not-quite-ready-index.html [2]http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/doc/sampler.pdf In the sampler.pdf, what's that symbol that looks like a zener with a third wire ? Is that a three terminal regulator like the 7805? I've not enc

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] > John Luciani did some publication-quality symbols a couple of >years ago. What ever happened to those? > These? http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/not-quite-ready-index.html Just a sampler and make sure you abide by John's license if you get the actual symbols.

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of available publication quality symbols. If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA. If I'm after a nice looking schematic I use XCircuit. I'd like to be able to have it both ways, a nic

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi Denis, [snip] >I'm using gEDA on Windows (after fixing that quirk with cairo making the >fonts too small). gschem is fine for editing schematics, and PCB is very Out of curiosity, how did you go about running gEDA on Windows? Which of the binaries are you using or did you build it

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:03 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: >> The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of >> available publication quality symbols.  If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA. >>  If I'm after a nice looking schematic I

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Denis Grelich
Hello, I'm using gEDA on Windows (after fixing that quirk with cairo making the fonts too small). gschem is fine for editing schematics, and PCB is very fine for pcbs. I believe the biggest show stopper is really the lack of a fixed work flow. Though gsch2pcb -v -d 'C:\Programme\gEDA\sh

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread asomers
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564716&cid=31289534 > > Let me be the first to apologize. :-)  Although, a couple people have > posted that gEDA's documentation lacks in places. > > Any volunteers for: "Make a beginners interfa

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:03 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the lack of > available publication quality symbols. If I'm doing a PCB I use gEDA. > If I'm after a nice looking schematic I use XCircuit. I'd like to be > able to have it both ways,

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:31:58PM +0900, timecop wrote: >> > standard parts library. ?And if you're making footprints and symbols, >> > text files generated by scripts are FAR superior to any GUI. ?I'd never >> > get 100-1000 pins right if I h

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 00:44 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564716&cid=31289534 > > Let me be the first to apologize. :-) Although, a couple people have > posted that gEDA's documentation lacks in places. > > Any volunteers for: "Make a beginners inter

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of timecop > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:32 AM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot > > > standard

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread John Luciani
Without a Windows port you will have a beginners interface (and documentation) but no beginners ;) I have talked to a lot of people at the Arduino Users Group and at dorkbot and the majority are Windows, a fair number on MAC and a few on Linux. Eagle has done excellent marketin

Re: gEDA-user: Making circles in PCB

2010-02-27 Thread Denis Grelich
Hello there! I've tried to implement this feature into pcb once myself but failed because of the large size of the source code and my lack of skills and time. What I tried to implement was this: - set a 90 degree arc just like you do right now, - change the angle by holding ctrl and pulli

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 00:44 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564716&cid=31289534 > > Let me be the first to apologize. :-) Although, a couple people have > posted that gEDA's documentation lacks in places. > > Any volunteers for: "Make a beginners inter

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:31:58PM +0900, timecop wrote: > > standard parts library. ?And if you're making footprints and symbols, > > text files generated by scripts are FAR superior to any GUI. ?I'd never > > get 100-1000 pins right if I had to use a GUI. > lol, every altium user disagrees. > if

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread timecop
> standard parts library.  And if you're making footprints and symbols, > text files generated by scripts are FAR superior to any GUI.  I'd never > get 100-1000 pins right if I had to use a GUI. lol, every altium user disagrees. if you ever seen their IPC pattern / component wizard, you wouldn't be

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:15:13PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > > Don't know what they're complaining about - When I started using gschem > & pcb a few years ago I just committed to doing it, ran through the > tutorials and got on with it. I started using gschem+PCB because I needed to make a b

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-02-27 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > I just got aware of the open source mechanical CAD project freecad. It > hit the debian repository a month ago. Although it is still lacking > important features, much of the basic infrastructure is already up and > running. >        http: