Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread gedau
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: snip But I suppose it is better to re-invent the wheel. There is no reason to try to foster any sort of compatibility in file formats between all the different CAD tools. There are always conversion programs to be written,

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.09.2010 05:29, schrieb Rick Collins: XML? What's wrong with XML? Heavy? How heavy are a few electrons anyway? There is already a preliminary XML based CAD data spec proposed by IPC, you know, the guys who write specs for the PCB assembly industry... I don't know if it is the best

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus verilog Synthesis

2010-09-04 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.09.2010 06:19, schrieb Ronald Mathias: I transform the Verilog code containing behavioral statements into verilog code that contains only gate level instantiations. This is passed as input to ABC Logic synthesis tool. Finally the output generated by ABC is passed to

Re: gEDA-user: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3:

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:10 -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote: I upgraded my Ubuntu 08.04 to 10.04 and now gschem will not work. k...@red:/home/backup/Work/BuddiPole/Schematic/condisp $ gschem condisp-*.sch gschem: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object

Re: gEDA-user: crosshair snaps to pins and pads... on locked component

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:11 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: I just can't figure out why can't the Crosshair snaps to pins/pads work when the component is locked. As far as I know, locking a component is for to lock the position of the component. What a coincidence. We were just discussing

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:53 +0200, Pawel Kusmierski wrote: As a kludge, call your layer by one of the magic names outline or route and it will be ignored by the DRC, and treated as non-copper. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Ineiev
On 9/3/10, Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:53 +0200, Pawel Kusmierski wrote: Can I get pcb to either treat a layer other than the default silk as non-metal (so it would not short pads and mess up nets), No, currently we have only one silk layer. You

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Ineiev
Hello, DJ; On 9/4/10, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Our DRC engine could use a complete rewrite. It doesn't get arcs right, for example. Could you elaborate on the arcs, please? what it doesn't do? Thanks, Ineiev ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: gschem doesn't store slot info?

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:42 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Well, I did a git fetch/rebase, built, and installed... and still there. About says 20100214, gitk says no commits since May, do I have the wrong repository? The gschem binary is dated today. What is the SHA1 of your repository head. (Not

Re: gEDA-user: the incredible growing PCB window

2010-09-04 Thread gene glick
gene glick wrote: Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 20:35 -0400, gene glick wrote: I haven't yet put my finger on what operations cause this, but the PCB GUI window keeps growing larger than my screen! Anybody know what gives? yep, sorry about that - PCB version 20091103 OS :

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:37:32AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: If we tagged individual objects with rules it would be difficult to edit rules in a systemetic way. So I don't think that's a good way to go. No, we tag objects with rule *names*. Hopefully rules can nest, so you can have

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! The spec is large because it addresses a wide range of design aspects, which is one of the great reasons for using it, one file for the entire design, schematic, layout, mechanical,

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:38:15AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: 1. Refuse to export-as-footprints any PCB with more than one copper layer. This will likely eliminate the most common problems. Edge connectors. Hmm. How about two copper layers, which would by default map to the top and

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
I'll have to save a sample next time it happens, I can't reproduce it manually :-P Mostly it's when you're using the global puller or toporouter and it makes all those sweeping graceful curves. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: gschem doesn't store slot info?

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
What is the SHA1 of your repository head. (Not including any local patches)? I've tried to reproduce the bug, but so far haven't been able to. And, of course, now I can't reproduce it either :-P ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: the incredible growing PCB window

2010-09-04 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 07:54 -0400, gene glick wrote: gene glick wrote: OK, maybe now I do understand your problem. Your problem may be, that your GTK+ PCB main window grows horizontally, because there is not enough space available to show all text, that is the Menu text, filename, coordinates of

Re: gEDA-user: the incredible growing PCB window

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
What's your screen resolution? I can reproduce the window grows feature, but only if I start with a really small window, and it only grows so far then stops. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
But suppose the user creates a rule like, all traces on Layer 3 must be at least 5mm apart, and then saves the file and reloads it. Now the information about what traces are affected is lost, except that all the traces on Layer 3 are coincedentally tagged with the rule. What if the user

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
How do you know PCB won't ever run on cell phones, or over a slow network link, or on an embedded device or network PC or overtaxed virtual machine? iPcb . . . ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Hmm. How about two copper layers, which would by default map to the top and bottom layers (whatever they are) on the PCB that the footprint is being used in? Stripline Antennas ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread John Griessen
Andrew Poelstra wrote: suppose the user creates a rule like, all traces on Layer 3 must be at least 5mm apart, and then saves the file and reloads it. Now the information about what traces are affected is lost, except that all the traces on Layer 3 are coincedentally tagged with the rule. What

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread John Griessen
Andrew Poelstra wrote: How do you know we won't one day need to work with 1000-layer boards when suddenly it /does/ matter how heavy the file format is? As in 3D circuitry in printed organic semiconductor... printed along with volume-defining material for circuit and package in one... We'll

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Windell H. Oskay
On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Ineiev wrote: Hello, DJ; On 9/4/10, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Our DRC engine could use a complete rewrite. It doesn't get arcs right, for example. Could you elaborate on the arcs, please? what it doesn't do? I've been running into trouble with the

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Windell H . Oskay
On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Ineiev wrote: Hello, DJ; On 9/4/10, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Our DRC engine could use a complete rewrite. It doesn't get arcs right, for example. Could you elaborate on the arcs, please? what it doesn't do? I've been running into trouble with

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Pawel Kusmierski
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: As a kludge, call your layer by one of the magic names outline or route and it will be ignored by the DRC, and treated as non-copper. Peter, thanks for the tip. I may be doing something wrong, but even following the tips at

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Pawel Kusmierski
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: Probably this patch may be used as a workaround. Put your non-copper layer into a distinct layer group (File-Preferences-Layers, Groups Tab), add to the layer an attribute named PCB::skip-drc (Edit-Edit attributes of-Current

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.09.2010 18:18, schrieb DJ Delorie: How do you know PCB won't ever run on cell phones, or over a slow network link, or on an embedded device or network PC or overtaxed virtual machine? iPcb . . .

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:24:38 + Ineiev ine...@gmail.com wrote: Probably this patch may be used as a workaround. Why don't we just push this patch to HEAD? This works just great. Thanks, Levente -- Levente Kovacs http://levente.logonex.eu ___

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Ineiev, thanks for the patch, it applied fine. However, I'm unable to find the (Edit-Edit attributes of-Current Layer). Is it placed somewhere else, or can I manually edit the .pcb file for the same result? I'm using pcb source tree from git, version 1.99z. Do you have a local

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Rick Collins
At 11:49 AM 9/4/2010, you wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! The spec is large because it addresses a wide range of design aspects, which is one of the great reasons for using it, one file for the entire

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.09.2010 01:44, schrieb Andrew Poelstra: Hey all, I am working on the structuring PCB files in terms of functional blocks, and generalizing/extending the DRC rule format. (Things have slowed down as summer is ending but I am still

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Rick Collins
I am currently having a conversation in the FreePCB forum about DRC. I think copper only checking is not adequate. There are design rules regarding solder mask which can not be checked properly just by checking copper to copper rules. Is there any checking done on the solder mask layer? If

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 06:37:37PM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: So are you suggesting that we should, at this time, plan for running PCB on a cell phone? Do you want to design PCB to work on overtaxed virtual machines, if so, I expect there will be a lot more important things to optimize than

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Bob Paddock
How do you know PCB won't ever run on cell phones, or over a slow network link I have run gEDA and PCB over VNC, on slow links. Not fun. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

2010-09-04 Thread Ethan Swint
In parallel to how we want to implement the PCB file format, why don't we have a separate thread on *what* we want to implement? I'll propose the following as a starting point: 1) Better angle support: include rotation (in degrees, rotation/translation matrix, whatever) as a location

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread kai-martin knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: The point is that we can't be sure what the future will bring in terms of IOPS, storage capacity (even big servers often RAID together dozens of small drives to get high speeds against low capacity). This kind of argument goes against any change. geda development

Re: gEDA-user: crosshair snaps to pins and pads... on locked component

2010-09-04 Thread kai-martin knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: On my various OpenGL branches, there is a patch which disables snapping to pads on layers which you aren't on. (IE.. only snap to component side pads if you are on a component copper layer). I noticed this and liked it :-) I don't think it can be separated too easily

Re: gEDA-user: the incredible growing PCB window

2010-09-04 Thread gene glick
Stefan Salewski wrote: Please try this: Select File-Preferences, and then General, and Alternate window layout to allow smaller horizontal size. And try Put layout name on the window title bar below. That is a good work around, thanks! DJ: What's your screen resolution? 1280 X 800. I have

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:00:45AM +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: Andrew Poelstra wrote: The point is that we can't be sure what the future will bring in terms of IOPS, storage capacity (even big servers often RAID together dozens of small drives to get high speeds against low capacity).

Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

2010-09-04 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:50:51PM -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: In parallel to how we want to implement the PCB file format, why don't we have a separate thread on *what* we want to implement? I'll propose the following as a starting point: I have one more suggestion: the facility to create

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:29:58PM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: XML? What's wrong with XML? Heavy? How heavy are a few electrons anyway? For most data, XML ends up being 50% tags (and 50% data). It's hard to read for

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:44:14PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: However, this also brings the ability to edit PCB components individually, which means that some parts could have different layers than others, for

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! The spec is large because it addresses a wide range of design aspects, which is one of the great reasons for

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread timecop
iPAd is about as closedsores and proprietary as it gets; you sure you want to support that? On 5 Sep 2010 11:57, Steven Michalske [1]smichal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Andrew Poelstra [2]as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:00 PM, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Andrew Poelstra wrote: The point is that we can't be sure what the future will bring in terms of IOPS, storage capacity (even big servers often RAID together dozens of small drives to get high speeds against low

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
Yes, I like walled gardens, you only let in those you trust. Don't like the walled garden don't use it. Anyhow, the software is free. Who cares about MY platform of choice be it Linux, Mac OS X, or windows, all of which geda supports, and more. On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:05 PM, timecop

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus verilog Synthesis

2010-09-04 Thread Ronald Mathias
Hi, Thanks a lot. Regards Ronald Mathias On 9/4/10, Philipp Klaus Krause [1]...@spth.de wrote: Am 04.09.2010 06:19, schrieb Ronald Mathias: I transform the Verilog code containing behavioral statements into verilog code that contains

Re: gEDA-user: Color silk layers in pcb

2010-09-04 Thread Ineiev
On 9/4/10, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Ineiev, thanks for the patch, it applied fine. However, I'm unable to find the (Edit-Edit attributes of-Current Layer). Is it placed somewhere else, or can I manually edit the .pcb file for the same result? I'm using pcb source tree from git,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: In parallel to how we want to implement the PCB file format, why don't we have a separate thread on *what* we want to implement? I'll propose the following as a starting point: 1) Better angle support: include rotation (in degrees,

gEDA-user: PSGroove open source hardware project

2010-09-04 Thread jason duhamell
Does anybody want to help me make a PSGroove hardware project for sony ps3. Atommann's baby came early and I need someone else to help me finish it. [1]http://www.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?155644-Open-source-ps-jailb reak-hardware-designp=1258686#post1258686 References 1.