Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Armin Faltl
Steven Michalske wrote: As you guys continue to debate this... Look at how pcb makes the xyrs data files. You'll findout that it generates it from the pcb file not the library. It takes the center of the part from the pins and pads. Then it puts pin 1 somewhere consistent. See the

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Armin Faltl
Rick Collins wrote: At 05:34 PM 10/1/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: If for whatever reason the designer used 2 different footprints for the same part occuring several times on a board, if the footprints are position/rotation inconsisten... I have no idea why anyone would do that. Real

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Armin Faltl
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I think registration marks help a lot. Attached you find my favourite mark, that regrettably can't be converted into a footprint, because it contains polygons. I converted it to a footprint anyway ;-) Nice work, thanks

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Rick Collins
At 08:24 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: I really have no idea how things work in the gEDA/PCB world. With FreePCB the library has a default orientation for parts and there is a centroid vector to allow the pin 1 orientation to be set compatibly with the Gerber files. If you

Re: gEDA-user: Modifications to the main-menu of PCB

2010-10-03 Thread John Griessen
On 10/02/2010 07:35 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: Yes, to fix this kind of inconsistency, only one application can keep its traditional key binding. The fix will break long standing habits of power users. Not always. I use a menu.res that makes gschem and pcb keys similar already :-) Other

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Armin Faltl
Rick Collins wrote: I really don't know what you are talking about. The footprint will show up on your layout in some orientation. That is the orientation it will have on the board in the Gerber files. How will the transformations affect that? What you see is what you get. This

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Armin Faltl
Rick Collins wrote: At 08:24 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: I really have no idea how things work in the gEDA/PCB world. With FreePCB the library has a default orientation for parts and there is a centroid vector to allow the pin 1 orientation to be set compatibly with the

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Rick Collins
At 06:09 PM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: At 08:24 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: I really have no idea how things work in the gEDA/PCB world. With FreePCB the library has a default orientation for parts and there is a centroid vector to allow the pin 1

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-03 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 09/29/2010 11:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: If someone can get the mingw builds working again, I'd appreciate that - neither the win32/build_pcb script nor a fedora mingw cross compiler work for me. After porting pcb_spawnvp (in src/action.c) to Windows, it built fine on Ubuntu using my

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:09:22AM +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: Rick Collins wrote: At 08:24 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: I really have no idea how things work in the gEDA/PCB world. With FreePCB the library has a default orientation for parts and there is a centroid vector

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-03 Thread Rick Collins
At 10:23 PM 10/3/2010, you wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:09:22AM +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: Rick Collins wrote: At 08:24 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote: Rick Collins wrote: I really have no idea how things work in the gEDA/PCB world. With FreePCB the library has a default orientation for parts

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-03 Thread DJ Delorie
After porting pcb_spawnvp (in src/action.c) to Windows, it built fine on Ubuntu using my cross-compiler build script (minipack). I'll work on a patch. Fortunately, the Windows API already provides an implementation of spawnvp. Excellent! If you could put update the readme and built