Re: gEDA-user: Help with board layout

2011-02-28 Thread Anthony Blake
Hi Oliver, I'm the developer of PCB's toporouter[1]. I have a few questions, if you don't mind: - Do you mind curvilinear wiring? - How many power supplies? - How much are you paying for the job? - Have the schematics already been captured in gschem? - Have footprints for components already been

gEDA-user: Help with board layout

2011-02-28 Thread Oliver King-Smith
I hope this is not considered list abuse, but I am looking for someone to layout a board in geda's PCB. The board consists of approximately 100 ICs and associated components. There is a lot of repetition on the board, and most of the ICs are single opamps, so the board is not as big

Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Chisolm - Gmail
I got a T-962A from these guys: http://www.ownta.com/t962a-reflow-soldering-machine.html This is a heavy unit so shipping was expensive, though I cannot remember exactly how much right now. It came DHL and I had it in about a week. I paid through paypal. Got a order confirmation, shipping c

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:57:44 + Peter Clifton wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Felix Ruoff wrote: > > Ctrl+0 will restore those to a "nominal" size too - but I don't think > this is relevant for gEDA. I don't think "zoom to fit" quite matches. Base the "nominal" zoom level on the D

Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

2011-02-28 Thread Atommann
2011/3/1 yamazakir2 : > Does that company ship to the US? Plus for some reason I have had VERY > bad shipping experience from europe. I live in CA and things always > take at least 3 weeks to get here. One time I ordered a cable from > ebay from the uk and it took 1.5 months to get here. > > So one

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB with tablet.

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 21:41 +0200, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: > Hi! >I noticed that someone said tablet (or whatever those wacom drawing >boards are) in new grid thread. Has anyone tried using gEDA and PCB >with tablet? Is it usable and does it give any benefit compared to >mouse? I'm j

gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB with tablet.

2011-02-28 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
Hi! I noticed that someone said tablet (or whatever those wacom drawing boards are) in new grid thread. Has anyone tried using gEDA and PCB with tablet? Is it usable and does it give any benefit compared to mouse? I'm just curious and hate clumsy mouse. Hannu Vuolasaho _

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Felix Ruoff
Am 28.02.2011 19:57, schrieb Peter Clifton: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Felix Ruoff wrote: I like the current behaviour using the wheel for zooming in and out. What I tried to suggest is adding the accelerators Ctrl and the Plus/minus - Keys for this. Ok, I think we misunderstood you. Yo

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Felix Ruoff wrote: > I like the current behaviour using the wheel for zooming in and out. > What I tried to suggest is adding the accelerators Ctrl and the > Plus/minus - Keys for this. Ok, I think we misunderstood you. Your proposed short-cuts would match mos

Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Rages
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:24 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: > Does that company ship to the US? Plus for some reason I have had VERY > bad shipping experience from europe. I live in CA and things always > take at least 3 weeks to get here. One time I ordered a cable from > ebay from the uk and it took 1.5

Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

2011-02-28 Thread yamazakir2
Does that company ship to the US? Plus for some reason I have had VERY bad shipping experience from europe. I live in CA and things always take at least 3 weeks to get here. One time I ordered a cable from ebay from the uk and it took 1.5 months to get here. So one one has any experience with the

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Felix Ruoff
Am 28.02.2011 17:24, schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak: Felix Ruoff wrote: Ctrl+- and Ctr++ are the suggested accelerators for this action by the GNOME Hid-guidelines With the vast majority of gnome applications zoom is rarely used, or not at all. Scroll is much more common. It pays in terms of usabilit

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 17:24 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Felix Ruoff wrote: > > > Ctrl+- and Ctr++ are the suggested accelerators for this action by the > > GNOME Hid-guidelines > > With the vast majority of gnome applications zoom is rarely used, > or not at all. Scroll is much more common

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Felix Ruoff wrote: > Ctrl+- and Ctr++ are the suggested accelerators for this action by the > GNOME Hid-guidelines With the vast majority of gnome applications zoom is rarely used, or not at all. Scroll is much more common. It pays in terms of usability to have the most common actions accessib

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
jpka wrote: > This >> behaviour should probably go away. Switching to mm doesn't neccessarily >> mean you want a mm-related grid. > > +1, already done. +1 This alone would make me want this patch. :-) ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-28

Re: gEDA-user: pads, mask and solder paste

2011-02-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ineiev wrote: > I'll push it tomorrow if nobody minds. Thanks. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hann

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread jpka
> I would like to suggest using '#' for enable/disable grid, perhaps '%' > for grid-realign (or your new version of this) and Ctrl+- / Ctrl++ for > zooming in/out. Partially done, in progress. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http:/

Re: gEDA-user: Please test new grids for GTK PCB

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Michalske
> Steven Michalske wrote: >>Did not apply cleanly against git head at > 359a02cfe25e32aec7d2985c8f368fbfdcd954fa > > Sorry i can't get it, but i check patch for errors on latest git tree > available > on time of post. (p.s. i'm too novice in git, can you give me exactly > commands > to set git head

Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb

2011-02-28 Thread jpka
> Does the grid still change in case you swap the measurement unit? Now, not. This > behaviour should probably go away. Switching to mm doesn't neccessarily > mean you want a mm-related grid. +1, already done. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@m

Re: gEDA-user: Please test new grids for GTK PCB

2011-02-28 Thread jpka
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154 Hi! Thanks for your feedback. I prepare and post newgrids.pcb-git-199z.v2.patch on Launchpad, i make some bugfixes: Felix Ruoff wrote: > Some comments (most of them for usability): - You often mention in the > tooltips the shortcut '^M'. At my system