Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 22:01 -0500, Rob Butts wrote: How did you doe his? With the accel key [k] ? If you wish to edit the mask clearance from _within_ PCB, you need to have the solder mask layer visible first. k and shift+k should modify it for a given pin / via. This will save in the layout

Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control of stepper or servo motors

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:16 +0900, John Doty wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: How much does the Armadeus board cost? The embedded board itself is 118,00€ (full version). It's designed to be a mezzanine atop your project's main board. Of course, when starting, one

Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control of stepper or servo motors

2011-01-25 Thread David C. Kerber
That might work if there was a (near) continuous speed control available. The little beasties I'm trying to follow in the microscope move at widely varying speeds. -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of

Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control of stepper or servo motors

2011-01-25 Thread David C. Kerber
Wow, that looks super simple; thanks! -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Wilkins Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:14 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Rob Butts
I would say that assuming the placement isn't critical, the easiest way is to delete the existing footprint (the one you want to change) from the board, save, then re-run gsch2pcb or whatever import process you use. Ah, so that will do it. I was trying to do it without having to

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Rob Butts wrote: Ah, so that will do it. I was trying to do it without having to re-lay the board out again. You don't have to. You can change clearance directly within the layout. No need to change a footprint, either. This actually one of the strengths of pcb :-) The best way to do it

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
What DJ suggested was that you edit your footprint file directly I believe. I don't know why you need to rename the file (other than for a backup) No, no, no... rename the string in the *.pcb where the footprint saves the file it *thinks* it came from. Then, when you re-import, it sees a

gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Terrance Hutchinson
I would like to help develop the Windows port. Your wiki said that if I was interested, I should post to this list. I have been working as a computer engineer for a little over 2 years at a company specializing storage oriented ASICs (PowerPC as well). What are the next steps I

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
I figured out the fluky fluky pdf print problem. The length of the line in the pad statements were only 8 100ths of a mil long instead of 8 mils long. I saw that, but that's perfectly valid... square pads would have a length of zero. ___

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
What are the next steps I should take? I suggest you... * check out the git source tree * search the mail archives for other attempts to port it to windows, and issues that came up * jump in and solve the remaining issues :-) ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 21:52:52 Terrance Hutchinson wrote: I would like to help develop the Windows port. Your wiki said that if I was interested, I should post to this list. I have been working as a computer engineer for a little over 2 years at a company specializing storage oriented

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:54:53PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: I saw that, but that's perfectly valid... square pads would have a length of zero. Square pads do get special treatment in a few places, so it wouldn't go amiss to try barely rectangular (even by 1/100th mil) to see if a clearance

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Malton
I too have done some work in so much as getting a full gEDA suite working under Cygwin. MinGW is probably a better option though. Chris On 25/01/11 22:05, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2011 21:52:52 Terrance Hutchinson wrote: I would like to help develop the Windows

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 22:09:10 Chris Malton wrote: I too have done some work in so much as getting a full gEDA suite working under Cygwin. MinGW is probably a better option though. There are two main reasons MinGW is better: 1) Cygwin is slow (not sure why, but on a previous

gEDA-user: gsymcheck - show line numbers?

2011-01-25 Thread william estrada
Hi group, Is there a way to make gsymcheck show the line numbers with the error messages?? -- William Estrada Mt Umunhum, CA, USA HTTP://64.124.13.3 ( Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) Skype: MrUmunhum ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Also... You can cross-compile from Fedora to MinGW using only yum-installed packages. Big win for me :-) I've build a mingw PCB just by ./configure --host=mingw... and it runs under Wine. Er, I might have had some *.c patches in place at the time, though.

Re: gEDA-user: gsymcheck - show line numbers?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 22:32:21 william estrada wrote: Is there a way to make gsymcheck show the line numbers with the error messages?? Not at the moment, sorry. Peter [ Technical info: the libgeda symbol file parser does not preserve object origin information

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Bob Paddock
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:33 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: You can cross-compile from Fedora to MinGW using only yum-installed packages.  Big win for me :-) I've build a mingw PCB just by ./configure --host=mingw... and it runs under Wine.  Er, I might have had some *.c patches in

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
The only problem I recall from minipack is that it wanted to download the pcb tarball, despite having the pcb sources right there, and it used an older version of the mingw cross-compiler than fedora ships with. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Bob Paddock
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:24 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: The only problem I recall from minipack is that it wanted to download the pcb tarball, despite having the pcb sources right there, Use the minipack shell command, tips from Cesar that I've been using: ./mpk shell pcb cd

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
./mpk shell pcb cd some-build-location-for-pcb git clone git://git.gpleda.org/pcb.git Right, but there's a minipack setup in pcb's git, so I'm running it *from* within git, and I want to build the version I have, not the version in git. In this case, my version had all the mingw patches I

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Can't speak to that, as I've not run into that under Gentoo, Fedora's mingw is i686-pc-mingw32-gcc. What does gentoo call it? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Bob Paddock
Can't speak to that, as I've not run into that under Gentoo, Fedora's mingw is i686-pc-mingw32-gcc.  What does gentoo call it? Same thing. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Er, because I was following the directions? Silly me! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 1/25/2011 10:56 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Right, but there's a minipack setup in pcb's git, so I'm running it *from* within git, and I want to build the version I have, not the version in git. In this case, my version had all the mingw patches I wanted to test before committing them. Are you

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
To be honest, I don't recall exactly where it came from. If it does what I want now, I'm happy :) Better - if someone *else* does the windows release binaries, I'll be happier :-) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 25.01.2011 um 20:10 schrieb DJ Delorie: (ok, someone add a feature request for ability to tag footprints for re-import - it just needs to tweak the footprint name string) Plus, try to place the reviewed footprint in the same place. Well, ideally. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Bob Paddock
Better - if someone *else* does the windows release binaries, I'll be happier :-) Is it documented what needs done to make a release, step-by-step? In discussing this with Dan in the past he often had troubles with things like tracking down license files for the installer as one example etc.

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Plus, try to place the reviewed footprint in the same place. Well, ideally. It already does that. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Do sub sheet symbol pins need pinseq?

2011-01-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Just have to do sub sheet symbols with 30+ pins each. Being a lazy guy, every short-cut is welcome. One of them: Are pinseq attributes really required for anything I could possibly do with sub sheet symbols? ---)kaiamrtin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher

Re: gEDA-user: Do sub sheet symbol pins need pinseq?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 03:07 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Just have to do sub sheet symbols with 30+ pins each. Being a lazy guy, every short-cut is welcome. One of them: Are pinseq attributes really required for anything I could possibly do with sub sheet symbols? I think, only pinlabel is

gEDA-user: How to create .sym, box attributes

2011-01-25 Thread william estrada
Hi group, Where can I find the definition of the attributes used to define a box in the sym files? Ex B 300 0 1400 2500 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 Thanks for your time. -- William Estrada Mt Umunhum, CA, USA HTTP://64.124.13.3 ( Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) Skype: MrUmunhum

gEDA-user: Thanks to the patch coders!

2011-01-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
For my current project I use the current git version of gschem. I noticed quite a number of little changes that improve the user experience. E.g: * recent files menu * occluded dialogs come to front, when needed * a dialog that provides a list to choose which files to save So, from me,

Re: gEDA-user: How to create .sym, box attributes

2011-01-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
william estrada wrote: Where can I find the definition of the attributes used to define a box in the sym files? Ex B 300 0 1400 2500 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:file_format_spec#box The first place to look for documentation on geda applications