Re: gEDA-user: Magnetic bike operation

2010-03-28 Thread David C. Kerber
My bicycle trainer uses an eddy current brake; there are no wires anywhere in the load; just a ventilated disk and a magnet that I can move closer or further away from the disk by turning an adjustment dial. D > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:ge

Re: gEDA-user: PCB, check which refdes belongs to which footprint

2010-03-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Sounds like a plugin - highlight all refdes where the bounding box of the element and the bounding box of its refdes do not intersect. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: PCB, check which refdes belongs to which footprint

2010-03-28 Thread Stefan Salewski
Hello, if we have two footprint elements on a pcb board, one on the left, one one the right, then we may move the refdes of the left element far to the right, and the refdes of the right element far to the left -- not intended, but by accident. So when populating the board we may exchange the comp

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-28 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 13:17, schrieb timecop: [snip] if you're at the point where you need to rely on web-based DRC > for gerbers (thus you don't trust the tools you use) its time to move > on It's not the tools I do not trust, but the current process is tha

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-28 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 13:13, schrieb Peter Clifton: Peter, thanks again, I'm ha [snip] The "solid" polygon will connect to everything it > touches. > I tried it and it cuased much more problems than it solved. So I leave it as is. [snip] > > I believ

Re: gEDA-user: thermals on layer groups

2010-03-28 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 21:28, schrieb Dietmar Schmunkamp: > Am 28.03.2010 15:49, schrieb Harry Eaton: >> With my setting of having the polygons on an extra layer I'm not >> able to place thermals. When trying this, the command is simply >> ignore

Re: gEDA-user: thermals on layer groups

2010-03-28 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 15:49, schrieb Harry Eaton: > With my setting of having the polygons on an extra layer I'm not > able to place thermals. When trying this, the command is simply > ignored. > >The thermal tool places thermals to the act

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 07:16 -0400, Jim wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Jim wrote: > > > >> I have no idea what might be interfering with the operation. It's > >> probably important to note that this is an OpenVZ container. I'm > >> going > >> to chalk it

Re: gEDA-user: fitting a board into a chassis

2010-03-28 Thread gene glick
DJ Delorie wrote: I used a tactile switch and some wooden buttons in my alarm clock... http://www.delorie.com/electronics/alarmclock/ http://www.delorie.com/electronics/alarmclock/20071007-button-detail.jpg That is pretty close to what I think would work nice. I'm having zero luck finding the

Re: gEDA-user: fitting a board into a chassis

2010-03-28 Thread DJ Delorie
I used a tactile switch and some wooden buttons in my alarm clock... http://www.delorie.com/electronics/alarmclock/ http://www.delorie.com/electronics/alarmclock/20071007-button-detail.jpg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.

Re: gEDA-user: fitting a board into a chassis

2010-03-28 Thread gene glick
Bob Paddock wrote: On yet another note, has anyone used metal dome push-button switches? I have used membrane switches with domes. Check their rated life. After a few hundred thousand operations some of them collapse and short. Can happen if you are designing equipment for years of service. h

Re: gEDA-user: thermals on layer groups

2010-03-28 Thread Harry Eaton
With my setting of having the polygons on an extra layer I'm not able to place thermals. When trying this, the command is simply ignored. The thermal tool places thermals to the active layer. You need to have the layer that the polygon is actually on as the active layer in ord

Re: gEDA-user: fitting a board into a chassis

2010-03-28 Thread Bob Paddock
> On yet another note, has anyone used metal dome push-button switches? I have used membrane switches with domes. Check their rated life. After a few hundred thousand operations some of them collapse and short. Can happen if you are designing equipment for years of service. http://www.duraswitch

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-28 Thread timecop
> I believe there are some fab's who run a DRC check with a web interface > as you upload the design files. I doubt this will be available until > you've committed to fabrication though. freedfm from 4pcb is free but it sucks and they will spam you. anyway, if you're at the point where you need to

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-28 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Jim wrote: I have no idea what might be interfering with the operation. It's probably important to note that this is an OpenVZ container. I'm going to chalk it up to something to do with that. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I'll l

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 02:08 +0100, Dietmar Schmunkamp wrote: > The pad has a width of ~16 mil and I used the autorouter to connect it. > I set the trace width to 8mil with 8 mil gap. So I got a trace to the > pad with 8 mil width on the "north" side of the pad (not in the center > of the pad). As