Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: You wouldn't want to have the *purpose* of a component be defaulted, just what the purpose *means*. Right. One could zone select parts and define their "in-between" attributes so they'd be chosen or narrow choices for a dialog with the user. _

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Would it make more sense, from a design flow perspective, to just send the symbolic information to pcb and let pcb assign footprints and pinouts? I think almost everyone is still going to want to get to both the pins chosen and the fundamental labels such as E B C on a transis

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> I was reading component-dbs.html and can't figure out ABI. Application Binary Interface. It's an API, but post-compilation. > Some of the above "in-between" attributes could come from a rule set > in gafrc. Could, but the most interesting use of in-betweens is to specify organization-specifi

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> The other point worth mentioning is that gattrib pushes the added > information backwards (upstream) and not towards the tool next in > the chain. I think I mentioned at one point that pcb could do the slotting at least itself, by noting which physical pins were already assigned to logical pins

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: If we want to optimize the selection of footprints, gatrib should become the frontend of some sort of database like backend containing all sorts of parts the user (company/worldwide ?) previously used, call it gparts if you want. http://www.delorie.com/pcb/component-dbs.html

Re: gEDA-user: Structure of Iverilog Windows Version

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Williams
Ronald Mathias wrote: >I have downloaded the windows version of icarus verilog version 0.8.1.7 >from [1]http://bleyer.org/icarus/. When I install the executable, I get >the executable vlpp.exe ivl.exe. in the lib\ivl directory. I know that >vlpp.exe is the preprocessor. But I do not

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ, and all, > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 5:49 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb? > > > > If we want to o

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread DJ Delorie
> If we want to optimize the selection of footprints, gatrib should become the > frontend of some sort of database like backend containing all sorts of parts > the user (company/worldwide ?) previously used, call it gparts if you want. http://www.delorie.com/pcb/component-dbs.html _

Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

2010-06-27 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ and all, > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:19 PM > To: geda-user@moria.seul.org > Subject: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb? > > > A random thought o

Re: gEDA-user: sd card footprint

2010-06-27 Thread gene glick
billium wrote: Hello all, Has anybody got a footprint for a SD card, not mini or micro. This has been asked in the past but the person with the required footprint was on geocities which is now defunkt. I suppose that was me :) Try this, if you still need it http://www.avtek-us.com

Re: gEDA-user: sd card footprint

2010-06-27 Thread billium
On 06/27/10 02:21, Bob Paddock wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:15 PM, billium wrote: Has anybody got a footprint for a SD card, not mini or micro. This has been asked in the past but the person with the required footprint was on geocities which is now defunkt. You can download sdCa

Re: gEDA-user: dxf dwg viewer?

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:33 PM, gene glick wrote: > can anyone recommend a viewer for these drawings? I like QCad community edition. DXF is its native format, and it can edit as well as view. Stephen ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul