Re: gEDA-user: Clearance in fiducials & blocking solder paste

2010-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Ringing it with copper certainly would work. PCB doesn't have a generic "keep out" feature yet. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Clearance in fiducials & blocking solder paste

2010-12-04 Thread Oliver King-Smith
Is there a way to "protect" the fiducial? For example I could attempt to ring it with copper. Oliver __ From: DJ Delorie To: gEDA user mailing list Sent: Sat, December 4, 2010 11:29:28 PM Subject: Re: gEDA

Re: gEDA-user: Clearance in fiducials & blocking solder paste

2010-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Two notes: 1. "Clearance" is clearance in polygons, not the line/space rule. 2. Add the "nopaste" flag to the pad. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Clearance in fiducials & blocking solder paste

2010-12-04 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I am trying to place down some fiducials with a 40mil round copper center with 88mills of clearance (from the center of the fiducial) and 80 mils of solder mask. I am doing it by using the following command inside my footprint file. Pad [-13188 -15000 -13188 -15000 4000 4800 800

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-04 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:13 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > Peter, while all of this sounds great, could we fix the collective > problems that we have now first? > To many of us PCB is used to ship products, preferably today. Fixing problems is not always fun, especially if one is not really sufferin

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-04 Thread Armin Faltl
Bob Paddock wrote: Rick, I got line breaks. . On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Just thought I'd write some of this down and put it out there. I've spent some time recently thinking way into the future about the GUI / usability for an advanced PCB editing program.

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 11:15 +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote: > hid/common/actions.c:269' <- Can't see this one myself.. there is no exit > path out of that function which fails to free that allocation! > hid/common/actions.c:46' <- Array of actions persistent over PCB's entire > execution. Not a le

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-04 Thread Duncan Drennan
>  I've looked at various commercial boards recently, and it would appear >  that many use negative layers to draw tracking. High power stuff, >  where practically everything is copper, just with some isolation >  between regions. The complexity of the polygons which make up these >  traces would b