Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 02:46:40 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: • gsch2pcb wart: The net of input/output symbols is evaluated from its refdes. Consequently, the restrictions to refdeses apply: No uncapitalized suffix, no hyphen, etc. Proposal: evaluate the net from dedicated attributes.

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
2011/1/12 Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk: How about: Like the drop-down list of default attributes the add Attribute line presents.       netname       footprint       value       refdes       source       ... I guess, this order was determined by intuition of a developer long time

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
2011/1/12 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de: • gsch2pcb wart: The net of input/output symbols is evaluated from its refdes. Consequently, the restrictions to refdeses apply: No uncapitalized suffix, no hyphen, etc. Proposal: evaluate the net from dedicated attributes. E.g. in-net=,

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz k.kosciuszkiew...@gmail.com writes: I would say the existing attribute/backend/semantics interaction matrix is complex enough to require full analysis of the implications of yet another attribute being added... The matrix is so complex because it is not orthogonal.

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread DJ Delorie
How about listing attributes used in the current page already first, then all the other attributes? We already do something like that for the symbol chooser. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: PCB's postscript exporter

2011-01-12 Thread Andrew Miner
-- Forwarded message -- From: DJ Delorie [1...@delorie.com To: gEDA user mailing list [2]geda-u...@moria.seul.org Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:20:27 -0500 Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB's postscript exporter Fixed in GIT head. Added the appropriate DSC

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Andrew Miner
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Michalske [1]smichal...@gmail.com To: gEDA user mailing list [2]geda-u...@moria.seul.org Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:53:02 -0800 Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5) On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-12 Thread al davis
Dietmar Schmunkamp wrote: Start a design with gschem -- simulate it -- get it thru pcb -- extract physical paramaters from the layout -- OPTIMIZE* -- feedback to gschem -- restart the loop. On Friday 07 January 2011, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Unfortunately, at the current state of geda and

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 01:03 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: • gerbv feature request: Add a view mode that shows only the difference of two layers. This would be handy when I have to asses the changes that I made to an existing design. gerbv feature requests will probably get lost if posted

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 18:53 -0800, Steven Michalske wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: • gerbv feature request: Add a view mode that shows only the difference of two layers. This would be handy when I have to asses the changes that I

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: gerbv feature requests will probably get lost if posted here.. so if / when anyone files bugs for these requests, remember to find gerbv at sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv The issues I report in this series of postings are intended to go to the appropriate bug tracker.

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-12 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, al davis [1]ad...@freeelectron.net wrote: Both of these are areas where we could take the lead, but I need help to do that. I can't do it alone, and can't do it if people are fighting it. Does anyone want to help? I would like to help with this

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: What would be the semantics of these attributes when attached to some other symbol? None. They would simply ignored. Just like any other symbol that a gnetlist back-end does not explicitly look for. ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: How about listing attributes used in the current page already first, then all the other attributes? The attribute editor refers to symbols on the schematic. So all attributes are already present, anyway. Did you mean to sort according to abundance? To me, the benefit in

gEDA-user: PCB Vias

2011-01-12 Thread Rob Butts
I tried setting the minimum annular ring size and minimum drill size in PCB but after autorouting the size of the vias don't change. Is there a way of setting up PCB so that the vias are a predefined size? ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Vias

2011-01-12 Thread Rob Butts
Thanks, got it! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:35 PM, DJ Delorie [1...@delorie.com wrote: The autorouter uses the current route style, not the DRC rules, to determine what size traces and vias it uses. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Rick
On 1/12/2011 9:17 AM, Andrew Miner wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Michalske[1]smichal...@gmail.com To: gEDA user mailing list[2]geda-user@moria.seul.org Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:53:02 -0800 Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and