Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Ethan Swint
On 06/21/2011 10:06 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: 416ccb60d759cd0e4e27d230a2af01bcc9f3ccdc (22 May 2011 committed by Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz: "hid/gtk: Cleanup conditional code because GTK 2.12 is required now") produces correct outpu

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: > > 416ccb60d759cd0e4e27d230a2af01bcc9f3ccdc (22 May 2011 committed by > Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz: "hid/gtk: Cleanup conditional code > because GTK 2.12 is required now") produces correct output. I'll run > bisect on it and see if I can

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Ethan Swint
On 06/21/2011 09:37 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: On 06/21/2011 08:24 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: On 06/21/2011 04:56 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:03:04PM -0500, eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote: I just finished up a board in PCB and expoerted my Gerber files. The copper, mask, and p

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Ethan Swint
On 06/21/2011 08:24 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: On 06/21/2011 04:56 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:03:04PM -0500, eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote: I just finished up a board in PCB and expoerted my Gerber files. The copper, mask, and paste layers look fine in gerbv, bu

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> Are you saying that 0.000254 mm should be added to your DRC rule if > exporting to gerber? (ie, a 4mil DRC would become 4.01mil) DRC should be able to get mil units right. It's mm that you might want to bump up a little. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Russell Dill
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > We use cmils for gerber (0.01 mil).  PCB's DRC precision should be > 0.000254 mm Are you saying that 0.000254 mm should be added to your DRC rule if exporting to gerber? (ie, a 4mil DRC would become 4.01mil)

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Ethan Swint
On 06/21/2011 04:56 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:03:04PM -0500, eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote: I just finished up a board in PCB and expoerted my Gerber files. The copper, mask, and paste layers look fine in gerbv, but the top and bottom silk screens and the

Re: gEDA-user: OT: help needed; asymmetric load after rectifier seems to disrupt its working.

2011-06-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
> Hello all, > > I would appreciate some expert advice. > > I have a system which rectifies a sine wave input signal of 20Khz after > a LC filter (see Rectifier_sim.jpeg) > Everything works fine if LOAD_1 and LOAD_2 are equal. Vx is then > (almost) the same as Vin. And Vcc and Vss are equal to th

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread DJ Delorie
We use cmils for gerber (0.01 mil). PCB's DRC precision should be 0.000254 mm ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: skpi_drc patch

2011-06-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> I can edit the pcb.texi document, but I have no clue where to put the related > information. > > Or... shall I create an other document? Say... a text file? > > What is our documentation policy? We don't have anything for "known attributes" yet. I'm open to suggestions. For now, a note in t

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Russell Dill
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:29:02PM -0700, Russell Dill wrote: >> >> I've always worried about this too, especially when doing a design in >> metric and sending it to an imperial board house. My guess is you need >> to calculate the worst ca

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:29:16AM +1000, Stephen Ecob wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > > We are working on moving pcb toward metric base units -- then > > a mm would be 10^6 nm rather than "about 3937.00787 cmils" > > like we have now. > > Thanks for your wor

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Stephen Ecob
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > We are working on moving pcb toward metric base units -- then > a mm would be 10^6 nm rather than "about 3937.00787 cmils" > like we have now. Thanks for your work on this Andrew, it is a much anticipated improvement :) I see that you've

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Silk and drill not shown properly in gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:03:04PM -0500, eswint.r...@verizon.net wrote: >I just finished up a board in PCB and expoerted my Gerber files. The >copper, mask, and paste layers look fine in gerbv, but the top and >bottom silk screens and the drill file are way out of line. There seem >

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:29:02PM -0700, Russell Dill wrote: > > I've always worried about this too, especially when doing a design in > metric and sending it to an imperial board house. My guess is you need > to calculate the worst case error and add that to the DRC. The > difficult part would b

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Russell Dill
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Phil Taylor wrote: > On 6/21/2011 6:53 AM, Richard Rasker wrote: >> >> So I wonder what tolerance PCB's DRC has? I realize that 0.006 mm (6 >> micron) is a tiny distance, but it can make all the difference between >> an accepted and rejected board -- and thus dela

gEDA-user: Error on building gerbv

2011-06-21 Thread eswint . ramu
Related to my prior post - I tried to build gerbv 2.5.0 on Fedora 15, as opposed to the 2.3.0 that ships with F15. I get an error when running make: /usr/bin/ld: dynload.o: undefined reference to symbol 'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DS

Re: gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Phil Taylor
On 6/21/2011 6:53 AM, Richard Rasker wrote: So I wonder what tolerance PCB's DRC has? I realize that 0.006 mm (6 micron) is a tiny distance, but it can make all the difference between an accepted and rejected board -- and thus delay in the manufacturing process. I wonder too. I've often set my

Re: gEDA-user: Manufacturers of PCB on ceramic substrates?

2011-06-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:10:48PM +, Mark Stanley wrote: > > From: Gabriel Paubert > > [...] I am unable to find capacitors narrower than about 0.25mm > > (10mil) with low losses in the 4-20GHz range. > > > > Anybody knows of a capacitor manufacturer that could provide > > this kind of devi

Re: gEDA-user: Manufacturers of PCB on ceramic substrates?

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Stanley
> From: Gabriel Paubert > [...] I am unable to find capacitors narrower than about 0.25mm > (10mil) with low losses in the 4-20GHz range. > > Anybody knows of a capacitor manufacturer that could provide > this kind of device? We use Dialectric Labs (http://www.dilabs.com) single layer caps.   T

gEDA-user: PCB DRC accuracy?

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Rasker
Hello, I recently completed a rather intricate PCB with 0.8 mm pitch BGA's. When I sent it off to a manufacturer (Eurocircuits), a ping-pong game developed, with my design being rejected several times because it didn't conform to the design rules for a regular production pool(*). Now I found tha

gEDA-user: Manufacturers of PCB on ceramic substrates?

2011-06-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
Hi Bob, according to the archives, you were looking in August 2006 for manufacturers of PCB on ceramic substate. Did you find anything? I'm looking for something similar now, for a circuit containing a few Hittite HMC975 switches (it's not cryogenic, however). Another problem I have is