Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-04 Thread Armin Faltl
Rick Collins wrote: At most you might want to verify that the data in the XYRS file matches the Gerber files for a small number of representative parts. Why do you think you need to verify the results by reverse engineering the code??? That is the stuff I am talking about over thinking the

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-10-04 Thread Armin Faltl
Rick Collins wrote: I'm guessing here, but pick and place machine have to orientate the part very fast, so it is important that they pick the component from a principal axis of inertia. It is not always easy to determine where the axis lies when the component is asymmetric, which is frequent

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-10-04 Thread Armin Faltl
Karl Hammar wrote: +1 for nc since ICs have pins that are labeled that way. Would the DRC just ignore it, or would the DRC complain if it was connected to anything? +1 ... Since nc is just a piece of copper attached to the (plastic/ceramic) package, why should drc complain? A nc pin

Re: gEDA-user: multiple monitors

2010-10-04 Thread Armin Faltl
John Griessen wrote: That's a nice idea. I'd also like a feature where besides just panning, you could define views that stay around. They'd show as zones on the whole design view, and selecting them would open the pcb work view window on that area of interest. A way to do a UI for that

Re: gEDA-user: multiple monitors

2010-10-04 Thread John Griessen
On 10/04/2010 10:59 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: John Griessen wrote: That's a nice idea. I'd also like a feature where besides just panning, you could define views that stay around. They'd show as zones on the whole design view, My mechanical cad demo has a similiar feature: 5 buttons that

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-10-04 Thread Andrew Miner
Since nc is just a piece of copper attached to the (plastic/ceramic) package, why should drc complain? A nc pin would be like pas, but gives no error if unconnected. The documentation of the Renesas TinyH8 states: ... Do not connect anything to the nc-pins. They might be used as test

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-10-04 Thread Rick Collins
I have seen this handled in other CAD packages not by making the pin an NC in the symbol, but by having a feature in the schematic where the pin can be No Connected so that it is not flagged as an error if it has no wire. Or course, it makes some sense to have a special type of NC in a

gEDA-user: Problem whit footprint.

2010-10-04 Thread Luis Palombo
Hi, im new on geda, and have installed the latest version. There are changes or problems when i try make a footprint and call it from xgschem2pcb?? Only one footprint (only one pin) do not appear when i touch the button update layout in xgschem2. Thanks!!

gEDA-user: PCB layers questions

2010-10-04 Thread jbump
I'm having trouble with layers in pcb and can't find any relevant info either on the web or in reading back through several hundred archived messages, so I figured I'd just ask. I'm using version 20080202 (because that's what's in the repo I use.) When I try to add a new layer, it refuses

Re: gEDA-user: PCB layers questions

2010-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm using version 20080202 (because that's what's in the repo I use.) When I try to add a new layer, it refuses unless I add the layer into or above one of the three component-associated or solder-associated layers. (component, gnd-comp, vcc-comp; solder, gnd-solder, vcc-solder) Once I

Re: gEDA-user: PCB layers questions

2010-10-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
jb...@frii.com wrote: I'm using version 20080202 (because that's what's in the repo I use.) What repo? When I try to add a new layer, it refuses unless I add the layer into or above one of the three component-associated or solder-associated layers. (component, gnd-comp, vcc-comp;

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-04 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 4/10/2010 01:11, DJ Delorie wrote: Excellent! If you could put update the readme and built script for windows high on the priority list, it will save us much headache in the future. One way would be to directly add my script to the pcb sources. I would trim it down for building only pcb

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-04 Thread DJ Delorie
I prefer replacing the scripts already in pcb, to avoid confusion. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user