Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
It seems like gnetlist could be used to promote an attribute to the schematic. Does anyone know if someone has tried that? Oliver __ From: Stuart Brorson s...@cloud9.net To: gEDA user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread John Doty
On Feb 9, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: It seems like gnetlist could be used to promote an attribute to the schematic. No. Gnetlist can't do that kind of schematic to schematic translation. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com

gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I am attempting to run the drc2 check with gnetlist. I have checked each individual schematic separately, and drc2 works fine. But when I tried to run them altogether I am getting the following crash: In /sw/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-drc2.scm: 518: 647 (if (null? list) 0 ...)

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
So gnetlist does not know which schematic file it is operating on when it is processing data? Oliver __ From: John Doty j...@noqsi.com To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Sent: Wed, February 9,

Re: gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
OK I have fixed my problem (well my scheme problem at least) by adding this line to the beginning of the gnet-drc2.scm file: ;; Give us more stack space (debug-set! stack 20) I don't know if there is a better fix. Oliver

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread John Doty
On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: So gnetlist does not know which schematic file it is operating on when it is processing data? That's just one of many kinds of information a gnetlist back end cannot access. The front end thoroughly digests the input, and only presents

Re: gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread John Doty
On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: OK I have fixed my problem (well my scheme problem at least) by adding this line to the beginning of the gnet-drc2.scm file: ;; Give us more stack space (debug-set! stack 20) I don't know if there is a better fix. I think

gEDA-user: Abuse of reply considered harmful: how to post to a mailing list

2011-02-09 Thread Colin D Bennett
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Re: gEDA-user: Abuse of reply considered harmful: how to post to a mailing list

2011-02-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: (If you haven't tried a threaded view, I do recommend it!) +1 BTW, the geda mailing lists are mirrored at gmane.org. Usenet newsreaders are geared to discussions with many participants. So gmane provides a way to get the most of the list. The name of this list on the

Re: gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: ;; Give us more stack space (debug-set! stack 20) Sigh. This is the second long standing non-feature in gnetlist that proves to be a newbie trap. It hit me twice over the years. The workaround to to this illness was on the gnetlist FAQ since it has been moved to

Re: gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - I am attempting to run the drc2 check with gnetlist.  I have checked each  individual schematic separately, and drc2 works fine.  But when I tried to run  them altogether I am getting the following crash: Stack overflows in gnetlist should never occur in 1.7.0

gEDA-user: PCB: adding information to gerber output, anyone?

2011-02-09 Thread myken
Hello all, I didn't see any reply on my question so I guess the very busy and overloaded knowledge base of this list didn't find the time to look at it, so please consider this a friendly reminder ;-) Or am I asking a very silly question? (didn't find a answer by google) The question was: I

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: adding information to gerber output, anyone?

2011-02-09 Thread DJ Delorie
There's no standard way to add information to the gerbers. However, if you want to hack your PCB to append information from a specifically-named layer to the fab output (and otherwise ignore that layer), go ahead. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: adding information to gerber output, anyone?

2011-02-09 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:29:52 +0100 myken my...@iae.nl wrote: Hello all, I didn't see any reply on my question so I guess the very busy and overloaded knowledge base of this list didn't find the time to look at it, so please consider this a friendly reminder ;-) Or am I asking a very