Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread kai-martin knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: > One suggestion I got a Devcon was to support STEP format for 3-d > graphics. While it's a hairy format, it was said to be "the standard" > for sharing 3-d models of components. > > Of course, it would be nicer if someone *else* supported it for > us :-) That's why I keep s

Re: gEDA-user: More OpenGL ideas

2010-10-29 Thread Felix Ruoff
Am 29.10.2010 02:44, schrieb kai-martin knaak: How about some low hanging fruit in the mean time? * Always highlight the object a left mouse click would refer to. This is done by many CAD applications. It would make many GUI actions more predictable to newbies (and evveryone else, too). I always

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:31:28 +0200 "Bert Timmerman" wrote: > Anyone volunteering for the difficult part ? Ah, if only I knew some kind of true 3D modeling environment... Technical graphics/artwork is kind of a hobby for me, and I'd like to think I'm pretty good at it, so if I knew what the he

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Bert Timmerman
OK, I'm corrected and happy for us ;-) Anyone volunteering for the difficult part ? Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Jones > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:15

Re: gEDA-user: Devcon Lab A31L: Open Hardware with Open Tools

2010-10-29 Thread DJ Delorie
I developed the gR8C board specifically for the lab, but we're going to try to use it as a generic eval board also. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Phillip Jones
> IMHO and AFAICT STEP is a "closed" standard, that is, one will have to > (probably ?) buy a copy of the standard and then violate the copyright > notice prohibiting to disclose (reproduce ?) its contents into some sort of > a library (libSTEP ?), which then could be published under LGPL and used

Re: gEDA-user: Devcon Lab A31L: Open Hardware with Open Tools

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 10:50 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > If you're interested in seeing what they went through, I put the lab > online. Of course, without the board you can't do the very last step, > but the EDA parts of it can be done with a standard (PCB 2010 release) > gEDA/PCB setup: > > The l

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread DJ Delorie
STEP is an ISO standard, which likely means you have to buy the standard itself, but you can implement it freely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/g

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 10:26 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > One suggestion I got a Devcon was to support STEP format for 3-d > graphics. While it's a hairy format, it was said to be "the standard" > for sharing 3-d models of components. KiCad (last time I looked a long while ago) use a very specif

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ, IMHO and AFAICT STEP is a "closed" standard, that is, one will have to (probably ?) buy a copy of the standard and then violate the copyright notice prohibiting to disclose (reproduce ?) its contents into some sort of a library (libSTEP ?), which then could be published under LGPL and used

gEDA-user: Devcon Lab A31L: Open Hardware with Open Tools

2010-10-29 Thread DJ Delorie
At the recent Renesas Developers Conference, engineers from around the world had an opportunity to experience "a day in the life" of an EDA engineer using nothing but open source software, including gEDA/PCB. A total of around 60 people attended my two lab sessions and, using a demo board they got

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread DJ Delorie
One suggestion I got a Devcon was to support STEP format for 3-d graphics. While it's a hairy format, it was said to be "the standard" for sharing 3-d models of components. Of course, it would be nicer if someone *else* supported it for us :-) ___ ge

gEDA-user: ngspice - unwrap script (included)

2010-10-29 Thread Fabio
Hello, I couldn't find an official way to plot the unwrapped phase. So I've made a script for that. It's not pretty, not optimized, but it works. You can see the result (before / after) here: http://bit.ly/ad5Tc2 (.gif) Download it here: http://bit.ly/cVvMvY (text) Move the file in "local/share

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, IMHO, openSCAD could be a (FOSS) candidate as well for generating a 3D view a the board. It's input file is a script resembling C. For the user manual see: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual Simple components (CAPC et al) could be defined as a module containing a cube for