Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-12-01 Thread Alberto Maccioni
* no voronoi mode: all the other tools (see below) support a mode  where they fill the unused area of the board with the closest net.  this cuts the machining time down to less than 50%. Can you explain more? * strange outline behavior: i'm not sure what the outline file is  supposed to do,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: coordinates and angles of the components

2010-12-01 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:58:06 +0100 kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Is the goal you achieve a common one? If so, can the script be included in the distribution of pcb in some way, please? It would spare other users the need to reinvent the wheel. This is a good question. Well, I

Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exporting single pcb layers)

2010-12-01 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 30.11.2010 um 16:29 schrieb chrysn: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:29:31AM +0100, Alberto Maccioni wrote: in the process of cnc-milling a pcb with a custom shape using pcb2gcode [1], i created a polygon on a separate layer... Have you ever tried the g-code exporter included in PCB? I've

Re: gEDA-user: New autorouter high effort mode

2010-12-01 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:53:38 +1100 Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: For my HE autorouter hack I have in mind to fork() off extra processes so that all of my CPU cores can run separate autorouter instances. As HE has an unbounded run time I'm thinking that the main PCB

Re: gEDA-user: New autorouter high effort mode

2010-12-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 12:51:41 Kovacs Levente wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:53:38 +1100 Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: For my HE autorouter hack I have in mind to fork() off extra processes so that all of my CPU cores can run separate autorouter instances.

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: coordinates and angles of the components

2010-12-01 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Kovacs Levente wrote: http://git.logonex.eu/?p=utils4geda.git;a=tree If someone thinks that some of them are worth distributing along with gEDA/PCB, then it can be downloaded from here. However, I don't think they should go with PCB. Instead I'd create a PCB goodies package, which would

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL - Stable (eventually...)

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:00 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 12:13 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Ok. I recloned(*) compiled and benchmarked my pidpeltier layout with full polygons and with poly_thin_draw. Hardware is my day job desktop, nvidia

Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re: exportingsingle pcb layers)

2010-12-01 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Markus, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Markus Hitter Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: comments on gcode generation (was: Re:

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Different solder mask clearance on top and bottom layers?

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Rasker
Op maandag 29-11-2010 om 23:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Stefan Salewski: On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 21:53 +0100, Richard Rasker wrote: Is there a way to change the solder mask on only one side of the board, but not the other side? When I use the K key over a via, the solder mask

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: coordinates and angles of the components

2010-12-01 Thread Ethan Swint
On 12/01/2010 04:53 AM, Kovacs Levente wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:58:06 +0100 kai-martin knaakk...@familieknaak.de wrote: Is the goal you achieve a common one? If so, can the script be included in the distribution of pcb in some way, please? It would spare other users the need to reinvent