Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 11.11.2010 um 05:11 schrieb d...@umich.edu: I like that the gound plane outline is machined. The circular pads could use some more lines to round them out. Have you thought about programming g-code arcs (G02, G03) for them? HeeksCAD/CNC does this (see below). Using G02/G03 isn't

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread dfro
Markus, Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'gEDA - Inkscape - pstoedit - dxf' route and was not happy with the round-off errors that Inkscape introduced into the image. In 'pcb', I tried a dpi of 2000 in the g-code exporter and the resulting pcb image is beautiful! FOSS pcb milling has

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-11-11 Thread John Doty
On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:05:17 -0600 John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: What you want doesn't matter. What the *job* needs is the thing that matters. Suppose the user can't get the job done *at all* without whatever feature is being

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread Alberto Maccioni
All this algorithm was done by Alberto Maccioni and some research brought up the statement, this is the only reliable way for offseting all the traces. Actually the algorithm is not mine, it comes from potrace, a tracing program by Peter Selinger (as you can see in the source code copyright

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Testers (please test)

2010-11-11 Thread Frank Bergmann
On 11.11.2010 00:13, Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:34 +0100, Frank Bergmann wrote: And on my Intel system I have disturbances comming like rays from the middle of the viewport/drawing area, see:

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread dfro
Alberto, Thanks for the comments. On 11/11/2010 04:24 PM, Alberto Maccioni wrote: All this algorithm was done by Alberto Maccioni and some research brought up the statement, this is the only reliable way for offseting all the traces. Actually the algorithm is not mine, it comes from potrace,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Testers (please test)

2010-11-11 Thread Frank Bergmann
On 11.11.2010 00:58, Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 23:13 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On my AMD Mobility Radeon HD3450 (driver: radeonhd) system (debian, stable but old!) and your local_customisation_no_pours branch (without the recent patches) the line ends look wrong

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, d...@umich.edu wrote: I think the 2000 dpi output is great! You coding wizards can do in a minute what would take me a month, but I would like to try writing a g-code to dxf conversion program in C. Thanks, Stephen Ecob for the jump start! Stephen, Some

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 11.11.2010 um 20:28 schrieb d...@umich.edu: The drill xxx.gcode.drill.cnc file goes through the board drilling all of the holes without differentiating the different drill sizes (found in the xxx.fab.gbr file). And, there are no tool change g- codes for changing between drill sizes.

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread dfro
Markus, That is good news. Could someone tell be how to add these files to the current pcb-20100929 source download and recompile? Otherwise, I will have to wait on the next source snapshot, which is fine. I would love to see the latest patches, though. I do not know how your '0023-board

Re: gEDA-user: Comments on pcb's g-code exporter HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC FOSS program for pcb milling

2010-11-11 Thread Rick Collins
At 05:31 PM 11/11/2010, you wrote: Alberto, Thanks for the comments. On 11/11/2010 04:24 PM, Alberto Maccioni wrote: With a dxf file, in a CAM program, you can program your fine line cutting with a tiny v bit, then program apocket operation with a larger bit to remove the remaining copper.

Re: gEDA-user: NGspice and GNUcap Non-Linerar Dependent Sources

2010-11-11 Thread John Doty
On Nov 10, 2010, at 4:09 PM, c...@eugeneweb.com wrote: Hi Gang, I've been playing with ngspice and gnucap and have gotten good results with the Non-Linerar Dependent Sources eg ASRC B devices in ngspice. I mostly use those with VC-Switches to make full wave bridges, SCRs, Triacs,

Re: gEDA-user: geda-user Digest, Vol 54, Issue 32

2010-11-11 Thread clif
On Nov 10, 2010, at 4:09 PM, c...@eugeneweb.com wrote: Hi Gang, I've been playing with ngspice and gnucap and have gotten good results with the Non-Linerar Dependent Sources eg ASRC B devices in ngspice. I mostly use those with VC-Switches to make full wave bridges, SCRs, Triacs,