Re: gEDA-user: Sub schematic power rails

2010-08-17 Thread joe tarantino
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:05 PM, kai-martin knaak <[1]...@familieknaak.de> wrote: Oliver King-Smith wrote: > 1) It is useful for seeing the decoupling caps on various components and > checking they have been done to spec. > 2) Often there are multiple power rails in the schema

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> Thanks for that script. I like the way you load the netlist and save. > So, whenever you think of a little change to the repeated cell, just > remake the board with the script, then run DRCs on it, and output. That's what I did. I had one .pcb that was one channel, and one that was everything

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Does what's pasted from the buffer stay selected? Yes. I used it with a pcb script on the powermeter board. Each renumber adds 10 to whatever's in the buffer... Thanks for that script. I like the way you load the netlist and save. So, whenever you think of a little change

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> Does what's pasted from the buffer stay selected? Yes. I used it with a pcb script on the powermeter board. Each renumber adds 10 to whatever's in the buffer... LoadFrom(Layout,powermeter-blank.pcb) LoadFrom(LayoutToBuffer,channel1.pcb) # left upper, first one already there # First is at 20

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: That's a great idea for low-effort/high-value. At least for those of us who array things on mere boards instead of chips... http://www.delorie.com/pcb/renumberblock.c Hmm... looks like that would work good for things I can select easily. Does what's pasted from the buffer s

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> That's a great idea for low-effort/high-value. > At least for those of us who array things on mere boards > instead of chips... http://www.delorie.com/pcb/renumberblock.c ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bi

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread John Griessen
kai-martin knaak wrote: In the meantime, a more powerful copy procedure could reduce the effort: Imagine, the copy-buffer action would accept a string parameter that it adds to the refdes property of every footprint before actually pasting to the layout. If this string matches the string gnetlis

Re: gEDA-user: pcb keyboard shortcuts (and usability in general)

2010-08-17 Thread John Griessen
kai-martin knaak wrote: John Griessen wrote: When you say shortcuts it sounds like the keybindings for keys to use instead of menu pulldowns. There is an existing mechanism for changing these in pcbmenu.res files in a local project directory. Unfortunately, the GTK internal mechanism of shor

Re: gEDA-user: Subnets

2010-08-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Larry Doolittle wrote: >> All the cutting, sed-ing and pasting of the subcircuits to multiple >> instances, with replication of later changes on all copies is pretty >> unflexible. > > Agree 100%. +1 Cloning, referencing, or whatever we may call it, would need a fair amount of programming. Give

Re: gEDA-user: Multiple pages

2010-08-17 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I am using ltspice as well __ From: kai-martin knaak To: geda-u...@seul.org Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 4:48:59 PM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Multiple pages Oliver King-Smith wrote: > I have schematic on one pag

Re: gEDA-user: Sub schematic power rails

2010-08-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: > 1) It is useful for seeing the decoupling caps on various components and > checking they have been done to spec. > 2) Often there are multiple power rails in the schematic, and it is > important to see which components are using which power rails both for > load and isol

Re: gEDA-user: Multiple pages

2010-08-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: > I have schematic on one page where I have connected the power to VCC and > GND symbols. I have connected the non power inputs and outputs to > Input/Output Generic symbols. > > So imagine I want to just hook this page up to some spice primitives to > test out the circu

Re: gEDA-user: pcb keyboard shortcuts (and usability in general)

2010-08-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Griessen wrote: > When you say shortcuts it sounds like the keybindings for keys to use > instead of menu pulldowns. There is an existing mechanism for changing > these in pcbmenu.res files in a local project directory. Unfortunately, the GTK internal mechanism of shortcut configuration on

Re: gEDA-user: pcb keyboard shortcuts (and usability in general)

2010-08-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bert Timmerman wrote: > Maybe a single button would do to open a popup dialog to alter layer > settings. > > Maybe something like this screenshot from AutoCAD: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/downloads/Layer_properties_manager.jpg There is no much benefit in presenting all the properties of

gEDA-user: Sub schematic power rails

2010-08-17 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I may be opening up a can of worms here, but I think it makes sense to have standard symbols for power rails in the sub schematics. Admittedly this is not hard to create within gschem. I know there has been some discussion about not having the power pins on the schematic for symbols