Re: gEDA-user: Cygwin still supported?

2010-03-26 Thread Alberto Maccioni
You should have an X environment working and GTK 2.x. See if you can open nedit, it uses X. 2010/3/26 David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu: Alberto Maccioni wrote: I forgot to mention that you have to install an x-server (of course, otherwise how would it display anything?); I have libX11

Re: gEDA-user: (Solved) Compiling PCB 20001103 - missing libraries

2010-03-26 Thread myken
Thanks Dan, I have found my mistake, see previous posting. Robert. -Original Message- From: Dan McMahill d...@mcmahill.net Reply-to: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Compiling PCB 20001103 -

gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Jim
I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu 9.10. I went in to duplicate a symbol (highlight, copy, paste) and it worked a few times (3 or 4 or 5). Then it stopped working. I could highlight and copy, but the paste selection under edit was greyed out. Am I doing something

gEDA-user: SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread myken
Hello All, Sorry to bother you again with a novice question. I'm in the proces of understanding PCB so please be gentle. I have a component (DPAK) on the top (component) side of my pcb, surrounded by a polygon. I have connected one pad to the polygon by using copper trackes. I also have a

Re: gEDA-user: SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:54 +0100, myken wrote: Question 1: is the clearance valid for both sides of the pcb? I think your question concerns solder mask, not copper clearance. So you can use the Solder Mask button on the left (GTK) to make solder mask relief visible. If you need this via as

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 06:24 -0400, Jim wrote: I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu 9.10. I went in to duplicate a symbol (highlight, copy, paste) and it worked a few times (3 or 4 or 5). Then it stopped working. I could highlight and copy, but the paste selection

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 06:24 -0400, Jim wrote: I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu 9.10. I went in to duplicate a symbol (highlight, copy, paste) and it worked a few times (3 or 4 or 5). Then it stopped working. I could highlight and copy, but the paste selection

Re: gEDA-user: SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:54 +0100, myken wrote: Via[312000 28 4000 2000 0 2000 selected,thermal(3S)] and Via[302000 261000 4000 2000 4000 2000 selected,thermal(0S,3S)] It looks like you've got thermals between this via and various layers. The numbers are layer numbers (I think), and

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread John Doty
On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:40 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 06:24 -0400, Jim wrote: I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu 9.10. Hmm, that looks to be 1.4.3. I'm running 1.6.1 (built from source) on Ubuntu 9.10, and I don't see this problem. I had to try

Re: gEDA-user: SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread myken
I think your question concerns solder mask, not copper clearance. So you can use the Solder Mask button on the left (GTK) to make solder mask relief visible. If you need this via as thermal via for parts with thermal center pad, and you want a rectangular shape: You may use a footprint with

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-26 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Duncan Drennan duncan.dren...@gmail.com writes: Double-clicking moves the cursor to the violation. Yes, absolutely wonderful. Except, ... it centers the cursor on violating entity, and does not show the second entity that violates the clearance. I've got 14 DRC violations left mostly on the

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 16:00 +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: Duncan Drennan duncan.dren...@gmail.com writes: Double-clicking moves the cursor to the violation. Yes, absolutely wonderful. Except, ... it centers the cursor on violating entity, and does not show the second entity that

Re: gEDA-user: (Solved) SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread myken
I don't fully understand the source code and I don't know if anyone is interested but this is what I found. Apparently there are 5 types of thermals: 1. a X shape with straight spokes 2. a X shape with round spokes 3. a + shape with straight spokes 4. a + shape with round spokes 5. a solid shape

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 06:24 -0400, Jim wrote: I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu 9.10. I went in to duplicate a symbol (highlight, copy, paste) and it worked a few times (3 or 4 or 5). Then it stopped working. I could highlight and copy,

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 13:03 -0400, Jim wrote: And once the paste is greyed out, a cut selection cannot be recalled (pasted) as far as I can tell. I wonder if some other program on your system is messing with the selection. I've not been able to reproduce it on my box with Ubuntu Lucid. It is

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-26 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk writes: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 16:00 +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: This is the board: http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et/people/stephan/solo/eda/erena/erena.pcb Any idea if it is a good idea to just ignore these violations? Depends on how close to your fab's

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Sager
It is odd that you have gEDA 1.6.1 from an Ubuntu Karmic install. (It would be present in Lucid though). I would have wondered if you'd got it from my PPA, but I recall only 1.6.0 being available there. Peter, I have not been able to duplicate this in Ubuntu Karmic

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 13:03 -0400, Jim wrote: And once the paste is greyed out, a cut selection cannot be recalled (pasted) as far as I can tell. I wonder if some other program on your system is messing with the selection. I've not been able to reproduce it on my

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-26 Thread gene glick
This is the board: http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et/people/stephan/solo/eda/erena/erena.pcb Any idea if it is a good idea to just ignore these violations? Blindly ignoring violations is probably not a good idea. Better to understand them first. I hope you don't think I am picking on you,