Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-12 Thread John Griessen
On 12/12/2010 01:20 PM, Anthony Blake wrote: If I do it, I think I should aim for a full years worth of funding, which would be at least 50k. Three months is too short. What do you guys think? I have plans to use it for my low budget launches of open hardware products, so I've looked at it clo

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING (was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-12 Thread Anthony Blake
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Justyn Butler wrote: > On 10 December 2010 00:09, Stephen Ecob > wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM,   wrote: >>> How about a Kickstarter project for the toporouter?  Let Anthony make >>> a proposal and put it on www.kickstarter.com, and then gEDA users ca

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Rages
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, John Coppens wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:07:58 -0800 > Colin D Bennett wrote: > >> Unfortunately this may not work well for footprints since I have found >> the best results from pstoedit to be achieved using the pcbfill >> output driver, which uses only polyg

gEDA-user: gEDA wiki software updated

2010-12-12 Thread Ales Hvezda
I have upgraded the software running the gEDA wiki today (long overdue). If you see something broken please let me know. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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

2010-12-12 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 12/12/2010 15:14, Martin Kupec wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 05:05:46PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: I am interested in the build process? Peter, how have you build this? mingw32 + Cesar Strauss's minipack build system.

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

2010-12-12 Thread Martin Kupec
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 05:05:46PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: > > I am interested in the build process? Peter, how have you build > > this? > > mingw32 + Cesar Strauss's minipack build system. (Which comes with > recipes for gEDA) >

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

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:45:29AM -0700, John Doty wrote: > > > > On Dec 12, 2010, at 9:29 AM, John Griessen wrote: > > > > > Help with that > > > from anyone who is up on windows is on the wanted list. It would help a > > > lot > > > wi

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

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:36 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:29:51AM -0600, John Griessen wrote: > > > > If you switch to gEDA, will you want a native windows build? Help with that > > from anyone who is up on windows is on the wanted list. It would help a lot > > with get

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

2010-12-12 Thread Martin Kupec
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:45:29AM -0700, John Doty wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2010, at 9:29 AM, John Griessen wrote: > > > Help with that > > from anyone who is up on windows is on the wanted list. It would help a lot > > with getting more users/developers. > > My customers in Japan report success

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

2010-12-12 Thread John Doty
On Dec 12, 2010, at 9:29 AM, John Griessen wrote: > Help with that > from anyone who is up on windows is on the wanted list. It would help a lot > with getting more users/developers. My customers in Japan report success using Peter C's Windows build: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-windo

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

2010-12-12 Thread Martin Kupec
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:29:51AM -0600, John Griessen wrote: > On 12/11/2010 12:01 PM, Martin Kupec wrote: > > We actually use Windows XP desktops..but for gEDA we have > > VirtualBox with linux installed. But this will probably change > > later on as we finish our switchover. Our previou

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

2010-12-12 Thread John Griessen
On 12/11/2010 02:16 PM, Martin Kupec wrote: The good thing about the pcb editor is that polygons belongs to an net. So it automaticly connect to the same net and avoids all the other nets. That IS a good feature. We've planned changes to the pcb data so it can do that. It's

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

2010-12-12 Thread John Griessen
On 12/11/2010 12:01 PM, Martin Kupec wrote: We actually use Windows XP desktops..but for gEDA we have VirtualBox with linux installed. But this will probably change later on as we finish our switchover. Our previous EDA was formica.cz and it has only windows version. If

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-12 Thread Armin Faltl
John Coppens wrote: I'm somewhat confused about the workings of PCB in this aspect - I suspect this has something to do with the complexity of rotation etc. Polygons are (usualy) defined by their corner points. Rotations of points are most often done by multiplying with a rotation matrix -