gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-26 Thread Karl Hammar
Shall we update the distributed sym files so they pass gsymcheck ? Should gsymcheck really complain about a missing numslots=0 and report error for a net=GND:2 attribute? *** When doing pcb import schematic, I get the message: Remember to check that your schematic has no errors using the drc2

gEDA-user: gnetlist -g drc2 and pintype

2010-09-26 Thread Karl Hammar
Running gnetlist -g drc2 on a schematic I get: Checking non-numbered parts... Checking duplicated references... Checking nets with only one connection... Checking pins without the 'pintype' attribute... Checking type of pins connected to a net... WARNING: Pin(s) with pintype 'output': U2:9

gEDA-user: PCB footprints polygons question

2010-09-26 Thread michalwd1979
Hello, In my current design I wanted ton create footprint (for touch key) that would have normal pin and some copper tracks connected to this pin. Is it possible? Tracks automatically became pads in footprint so then I have DRC errors. In general is it possible to create footprint that will

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Armin Faltl armin.fa...@aon.at wrote: Dreaming about mechanical cad features in pcb and how one best works to mechanical constrains on a pcb, knowing the latest and greates pcb use OpenGL and transparency anyway, http://code.google.com/p/toped/ is an IC Layout

gEDA-user: PCB: Default Saving-path

2010-09-26 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello, everybody! This is my first post at this mailing-list, so I would like to introduce myself very short. The main part of this mail starts after the double-line. My name is Felix and I am studying electrical engineering in Germany. I am sorry for my bad English, I hope, you will

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-26 Thread John Doty
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: The U3 is the lm7805-1.sym from gschem and it does not contain any pintype attribute. It is easy enought to correct: $ diff `locate lm7805-1.sym` 1c1 v 20080127 1 --- v 20031231 1 19,20d18 T 300 600 5 10 0 0 0 0 1

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bob Paddock wrote: http://code.google.com/p/toped/ is an IC Layout Editor that puts the transparency to good use, as an example. Alas there are no screen shots in the project to show how it would apply to PCB. There are screen shots two in Chitlesh's page on fedora.org:

Re: gEDA-user: PCB footprints polygons question

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
michalwd1979 wrote: In my current design I wanted ton create footprint (for touch key) that would have normal pin and some copper tracks connected to this pin. Is it possible? Tracks automatically became pads in footprint so then I have DRC errors. Give all connected pads the same pin number

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Default Saving-path

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Felix Ruoff wrote: My name is Felix and I am studying electrical engineering in Germany. I am sorry for my bad English, I hope, you will understand me No problem. You are not the only German on the list. In fact, we may well be the second largest user group :-) The following patch changes

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: Shall we update the distributed sym files so they pass gsymcheck ? Yes, please. I gave up on gsymcheck because it caused more work due to false alarms than it saved by pointing to real errors. Should a missing numslots=0 really be a warning? It is annoying to include it

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
There are screen shots two in Chitlesh's page on fedora.org:  http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/gallery.html Thank you. What does the tope GUI differently to Peter Cliftons semi forked version of pcb? I've not run Peter's version so can't really comment. I'm all to slowly poking at a

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist -g drc2 and pintype

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: Running gnetlist -g drc2 on a schematic I get: (...) Why does it warn about output -- input/output Don't know. IMHO, this combination should be fine. input/output -- pwr input and output are meant to refer to signals. The DRC assumes that signals should never

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Default Saving-path (patch attached)

2010-09-26 Thread Felix Ruoff
Thank you, kaimartin, for your reply! IMHO, it would be better to put the patch file in a regular attachment rather than copy paste it to the main body of the mail. Mail servers do quite a bit of space, tab and new line munging on the main body and render the patch unusable. By contrast, they

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Default Saving-path (patch attached)

2010-09-26 Thread Felix Ruoff
Sorry, i forgot the attachement :-(. Here it is. Felix Am 26.09.2010 21:38, schrieb Felix Ruoff: Thank you, kaimartin, for your reply! IMHO, it would be better to put the patch file in a regular attachment rather than copy paste it to the main body of the mail. Mail servers do quite a bit

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bob Paddock wrote: Someone, some place, in the future will want to support something that none of us have ever heard of today. If there is a easy, well documented, Plug-In system, then they can implement what they need without having to figure out the internals of PCB. The downside is that

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
Not being part of the distribution A well documented plug in should become part of the distribution. Undocumented code of any kind, should not. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Armin Faltl
Bob Paddock wrote: What is the benefit of plug-ins for this kind of infrastructure? IMHO, support of different image formats should be part of the main distribution. Someone, some place, in the future will want to support something that none of us have ever heard of today. If there is a