Re: gEDA-user: Bourns 3386P footprint

2010-08-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
David Griffith wrote: How does it look now? Good :-) Just a minor note: I like to set the square flag on the first pin. This makes debugging in the absence of a silk print easier. -- press q while the mouse hovers over the pin. A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read

Re: gEDA-user: Bourns 3386P footprint

2010-08-12 Thread David Griffith
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: David Griffith wrote: How does it look now? Good :-) Thanks. Just a minor note: I like to set the square flag on the first pin. This makes debugging in the absence of a silk print easier. -- press q while the mouse hovers over the pin. Or I

Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

2010-08-12 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Bob Paddock Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 1:07 AM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report a

gEDA-user: [OT] Fluorescent tube help

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Smith
Hi all, Sorry for the OT post, I've googled this to death without finding an answer and was hoping someone here might know. I recently purchased an old, second-hand UV exposure box to try making PCBs at home. One of the tubes has started to fail and in replacing them I have noticed something

Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

2010-08-12 Thread John Griessen
Dave N6NZ wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:28 PM, John Griessen wrote; What's a good reference about DXF? Arghhh... . . .. the structure of dxf... Imagine a design committee consisting entirely of passive-aggressive, 'B' ark chimpanzees that were only convinced to join the project for the

Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

2010-08-12 Thread John Griessen
Bob Paddock wrote: a 1 part library operating a layout service bureau Take a look at [1]http://wikicomponents.com The worlds first and only truly open source for 2D and 3D PCB component package, part and electrical device data. I corresponded with Dino Ditta, the person

gEDA-user: land pattern generators vs. verifying footprints

2010-08-12 Thread John Griessen
Bert Timmerman wrote: Hi all, a 1 part library operating a layout service bureau Take a look at http://wikicomponents.com The worlds first Excuse me for having a rather pessimistic view about this site. IMHO, this flipped wikicomponents coin can go just one of two ways: Head: It

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] Fluorescent tube help

2010-08-12 Thread John Griessen
Chris Smith wrote: I assumed that a previous owner uprated the tubes without changing the ballast, but in looking for a replacement I have become stuck. I can find plenty of general information on how fluorescent tubes work, but no specific advice on ballast selection. 2. two tubes can be

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] Fluorescent tube help

2010-08-12 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:53:43 -0500 John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote: Or shop for a second hand UV tanning lamp? Another solution might be looking at the circuits that excite the tubes with high frequency. With a simple oscillator, you can use the tubes without the filament, and if they

Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

2010-08-12 Thread Bas Gieltjes
John, It seems still to be unimplemented in 1.6.1. Or do I simply not understand how it works? I don't use it: the file you saw was notes for documentation, not a bug report. The patch is from my private git repository and is not implemented in any downloadable gnetlist version. I know

Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

2010-08-12 Thread John Doty
On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Bas Gieltjes wrote: John, It seems still to be unimplemented in 1.6.1. Or do I simply not understand how it works? I don't use it: the file you saw was notes for documentation, not a bug report. The patch is from my private git repository and is not

Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

2010-08-12 Thread Bas Gieltjes
OK, core developers. How do we get this into 1.8? Upload it to the sourceforge patch tracker to prevent that the patch gets lost. Bas -- ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 09:17 -0500, John Griessen wrote: OpenNurbs.org has the code, public domain. He's considering forking and licensing it GPL. IMO, that sounds like quite an aggressive thing to do to a code base.. particularly forking, then choosing a less permissive license to release