Re: gEDA-user: polygon regression in pcb+gl

2011-02-21 Thread Ineiev
On 2/20/11, Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: Congrats to your new status! The geda project got a new dev! This is really good news :-) +1 :-) Thanks to the whole community!

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: DRC does not correctly check pad clearance

2011-02-21 Thread Ineiev
On 2/19/11, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: I can confirm for fairly recent versions of pcb and pcb+gl. In your example, DRC starts to complain at 7.1 mil. That is, 2 mil too late. The discrepancy grows as the clearance grows. With an 11 mil gap I had to ask for 14.1 mil minimum

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL instructions

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Ethan Swint wrote: I was expecting just to get back git clone -o pcjc2 git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git or some such, but in response Peter has posted what looks to be an excellent guide to his blog at

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL instructions

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Ethan Swint wrote: Fairly slow scrolling on Firefox 3.6.13 on Fedora, but it seems faster in the sections without images. I looked at a few of the images and they all seem to be 150kB, even though they are pretty small pixel-wise. Much slower scrolling than other web sites.

Re: gEDA-user: polygon regression in pcb+gl

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Ineiev wrote: Pushed to git-head. Thanks, Ineiev Awesome - welcome to the development team. Feel free to ping me if there were any outstanding review issues you wanted me to look at with any of your existing patches. I feel very guilty I've not managed to get more of your

gEDA-user: Spice geda

2011-02-21 Thread darko
Hello. I'm relatively new to geda but how to make a spice simulation of attached schema with ng spice I'm getting error on first step and that is generating net list for the spice simulator i tried with :~$ gnetlist [OPTIONS] -g spice-sdb filename but it tels me that spice sdb is some kind

Re: gEDA-user: Spice geda

2011-02-21 Thread John Doty
On Feb 21, 2011, at 11:23 AM, darko wrote: Hello. I'm relatively new to geda but how to make a spice simulation of attached schema with ng spice I'm getting error on first step and that is generating net list for the spice simulator i tried with :~$ gnetlist [OPTIONS] -g spice-sdb

gEDA-user: Snap to grid preventing selecting/dragging text

2011-02-21 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:10:40 -0800 (PST) Oliver King-Smith oliver...@yahoo.com wrote: OK I see the error of my ways. I had to turn off the grid so I could click on the refdes. This brings up a good point. Very often I have difficulty selecting small components and more significantly text in

gEDA-user: gsch2pcb cannot find components

2011-02-21 Thread Vincent
Hello, I am reusing a schematic which I have already made a PC board with it while back now I want to make some modification without disturbing the previous one, so I made a new directory made the necessary modifications and try to generate the PCB file in the usual way. The gsch2pcb does not find

Re: gEDA-user: Metric, Imperial, Rounding, DRC, and board houses

2011-02-21 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 15:23 -0700, Russell Dill wrote: I'm starting a new design and all my components are metric based, including a few 1mm pitch BGA components. I'd really like to do the layout in metric, but I'm worried about two factors. The first of which is that PCB does not yet have the

gEDA-user: Metric, Imperial, Rounding, DRC, and board houses

2011-02-21 Thread Russell Dill
I'm starting a new design and all my components are metric based, including a few 1mm pitch BGA components. I'd really like to do the layout in metric, but I'm worried about two factors. The first of which is that PCB does not yet have the option to store things internally in metric (at least from

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb cannot find components

2011-02-21 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 17:45 -0500, Vincent wrote: Hello, Can any body help? Thank you in advance. Vinny In your working directory there may exist configuration files called project, gafrc, gschemrc or similar. Ensure that these contain valid information, i.e. paths to symbols, footprints

Re: gEDA-user: Metric, Imperial, Rounding, DRC, and board houses

2011-02-21 Thread Steven Michalske
I use mil grids, as many boards houses expect mil units, like yours. PCB layout is engineering, engineering involves tolerances... I start my traces from off grid components so that the stub going from the pin/pad is off grid byt quickly becomes on grid after the first 45 degree bend. Steve

Re: gEDA-user: Metric, Imperial, Rounding, DRC, and board houses

2011-02-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Russell Dill wrote: In addition, my board house rounds everything to 2.4 format (0.1 mil). I can envision several scenarios where my design meets DRC in PCB, but fails when I send it to the board house. What is my best option? Time to change the board house? Just use imperial units and

Re: gEDA-user: Snap to grid preventing selecting/dragging text

2011-02-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: This brings up a good point. Very often I have difficulty selecting small components and more significantly text in pcb, due to snap-to-grid being enabled. Did you try Only Names from the settings menu? I found that I I usually have to go through the menus then and

gEDA-user: gschem slots with different symbols

2011-02-21 Thread Allan Hessenflow
Is it possible to let gschem know two different symbols are the same type component so auto-slotting works? Alternatively, is there any way to hide some pins on some instances of a symbol? I always show power pins, and for those components where slotting makes sense, I'd like to be able to only

Re: gEDA-user: gschem slots with different symbols

2011-02-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I have done something like this by using multiple symbols for a single device rather than slotting. From memory all that was required was to ensure the pinseq are correct and the symbols are given the same refdes. I'm sure someone will correct me if I have missed something :P

Re: gEDA-user: Snap to grid preventing selecting/dragging text

2011-02-21 Thread jpka
The recent discussion on improved grid handling would also improve this. I work on new friendly grids in PCB. Currently i almost done and now try to prepare a patch, i will post it in next days or hours. I also need some help to regenerate documentation: main pdf is regenerated after toplevel

Re: gEDA-user: Snap to grid preventing selecting/dragging text

2011-02-21 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:52:01 +0100 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: Colin D Bennett wrote: This brings up a good point. Very often I have difficulty selecting small components and more significantly text in pcb, due to snap-to-grid being enabled. Did you try Only Names from