Re: gEDA-user: control verilog module parameter order when converting .sch and .sym with gnetlist?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris
Done. Thanks a lot Paul. --- On Mon, 11/22/10, Paul Tan pt75...@aim.com wrote: From: Paul Tan pt75...@aim.com Subject: Re: gEDA-user: control verilog module parameter order when converting .sch and .sym with gnetlist? To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Date:

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Does the slot keyword do anything other than define the beginning of a slot? I have no idea what you mean by beginning of a slot. The slot= attribute selects a slotdef= attribute. The slotdef= attribute controls pin numbering,

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 23:10 -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Peter, Different symbols for each slot is no problem. I will try that tomorrow. I was messing around with the slot=1 slot=2 trying to make things work and getting no where. Does the slot keyword do anything other than

gEDA-user: Cant find footprint

2010-11-22 Thread Luis Palombo
The program shown that: Elementos existentes en el esquema pero no en el PCB. No se encontraron las huellas de los siguientes componentes. Por favor, compruebe la propiedad 'footprint' de estos componentes. T16 (footprint=TERMINAL1) T6 (footprint=TERMINAL1) T9

Re: gEDA-user: STEP Format? [WAS: Re: PCB+GL+3D Packages??]

2010-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: I've been looking for a format to import 3D models of components for a quick rough viewing within PCB. fair enough. I'm hoping that there will be a route to do: Serious component model in CAD - VRML for use within PCB. With my current 3D CAD application varicad,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL resistor p0rn

2010-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Matthew Wilkins wrote: 1. make FreeCAD 3D models for each of the components 2. generate an XY place file, board outline file and drill file in PCB 3. run a python script in FreeCAD that generates a model of the board based on the outline gerber file. Make holes using data from the

Re: gEDA-user: If you also think the PCB lower-case letter 's' is ugly, here's a replacement

2010-11-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:45:31 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: The future is not using gsch2pcb to make a PCB file directly of course, DJ has been working on a better import mechanism, which we should teach gsch2pcb to make use of. (Which would then make PCB create the file). In

Re: gEDA-user: If you also think the PCB lower-case letter 's' is ugly, here's a replacement

2010-11-22 Thread Mark Rages
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:45:31 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: The future is not using gsch2pcb to make a PCB file directly of course, DJ has been working on a better import mechanism, which we should teach

Re: gEDA-user: If you also think the PCB lower-case letter 's' is ugly, here's a replacement

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 11:29 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:45:31 + How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle all vector-based fonts? I imagine the font outlines could be converted to line elements fairly easily... ? It is something which

gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:50:03 -0600 Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle all vector-based fonts?  I imagine the font outlines could be converted to

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Armenia
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Colin D Bennett [1]co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:50:03 -0600 Mark Rages [2]markra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett [3]co...@gibibit.com wrote: How hard would it be to

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Mark Rages
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:50:03 -0600 Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 16:31 -0500, Andrew Armenia wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Colin D Bennett [1]co...@gibibit.com wrote: It's not much of a workaround for anything large-scale, but I once exploited the fact that pstoedit (with no special options) generates the holes

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:25:49 -0600 Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen this bug before too. Try text to path in Inkscape. If that fails, binary search for the offending text: Delete half of it, try again, etc. Please do file the bug on pstoedit. Workaround validated. Thanks

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Jan Martinek
I really wanted to create a logo/description label in Inkscape and put it on a board I recently made, but after trying for an hour or two to get pstoedit to import text elements properly (holes in letters like 'B' or 'o' were getting filled in when exported to the 'pcb' file format), I gave up.

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread kai-martin knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: Different symbols for each slot is no problem. The way geda defines the term slot, this does not work. A slot is the same symbol with a different set of pin numbers. People have even called geda slotting a general pinnumber renumber mechanism. Like Peter said, you

Re: gEDA-user: Inkscape text-pstoedit-pcb and importing PostScript/PDF/EPS vector graphics with holes

2010-11-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:21:17 +0100 Jan Martinek ho...@dp.fce.vutbr.cz wrote: I really wanted to create a logo/description label in Inkscape and put it on a board I recently made, but after trying for an hour or two to get pstoedit to import text elements properly (holes in letters like

Re: gEDA-user: Cant find footprint

2010-11-22 Thread kai-martin knaak
Luis Palombo wrote: Some idea??? Maybe the elements-dir variable does not point to where the footprint library lives. Do you use a project file? ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x6C0B9F53

gEDA-user: [PATCH] for spice-sdb several fixes / cleanups

2010-11-22 Thread clif
Greetings, I've attached some scheme code patches for gnet-spice-sdb.scm. They are up for discussion. :-) There is a bug related to the file attribute that seems to cause the variable type to be bound globally when a file is read in. This obscures another bug in write-ic and

Re: gEDA-user: If you also think the PCB lower-case letter 's' is ugly, here's a replacement

2010-11-22 Thread Ineiev
On 11/22/10, Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle all vector-based fonts? I imagine the font outlines could be converted to line elements fairly