Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello Kai-Martin, Am 14.08.2011 21:16, schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak: Felix Ruoff wrote: By the way: Improving the menu-structure of pcb was the second task, where I started to code for pcb. But then I found so many other things to improve, that this will still need a lot of time :-). I might chime

Re: gEDA-user: Bug in 'FreeRotateBuffer()'? (WAS: Re: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8)

2011-08-14 Thread DJ Delorie
You can't rotate a square pad, because there's no reference angle - both "end" points are the same. Just make the pads slightly not-square. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:24:57 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > > > Back silk works for me as well, last build was May 19 (sure wish > > the "About..." dialog could tell me when the last pull was). > > After Peters latest comments I realised that I misread Michael Widlo

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > Back silk works for me as well, last build was May 19 (sure wish > the "About..." dialog could tell me when the last pull was). After Peters latest comments I realised that I misread Michael Widloks report. He was refering to Peters repository at repo.or.cz . ---<)kai

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:06:17 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > >> If the problem only applies to me then could You please give me some > >> tips what to check? > > > > I can reproduce it. > > For some reason I can't. > I get silk on the far side displayed in grey as exp

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: >> If the problem only applies to me then could You please give me some tips >> what to check? > > I can reproduce it. For some reason I can't. I get silk on the far side displayed in grey as expected. Last time I updated PCB to git was august 6th. ---<)kaimartin(>--- --

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
michalwd1979 wrote: > Normally components that are on the far side are drawn with grey colour, > but now I can see only pins, SMD pads (drown as expected in grey) but no > silk screen. The layout looks the same when I use TAB to flip the board or > 3D "control window". I can see silk of component

Re: gEDA-user: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Gus Fantanas wrote: > First, I am given a board outline in DXF format by a mechanical > engineer. I can successfully convert it to pcb format (import it to > qcad, print it as ps; convert it to encapsulated ps with 'ps2epsi'; > convert it to pcb using 'pstoedit' with the '-usbbfrominput' and '-

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Felix Ruoff wrote: > By the way: Improving the menu-structure of pcb was the second task, > where I started to code for pcb. But then I found so many other things > to improve, that this will still need a lot of time :-). I might chime in and start working toward a better menu. The current menu

Re: gEDA-user: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8

2011-08-14 Thread Gus Fantanas
On 08/14/2011 11:33 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: Second, in the past there were questions about rotating by arbitrary angle in pcb. I think the precision reason went away when we switched to centimils, but keep in mind that rotation is *done* not *recorded*. The pads get new coordinates, recomputed ea

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 22:57 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 08:44 +0200, michalwd1979 wrote: > > >> Normally components that are on the far side are drawn with grey colour, > > >> but now I can see only pins, SMD pads (drown as expected in grey) but no > > >> silk screen. > >

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 00:50 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > Assuming there are no more major bugs, I will push my > metric base-unit changes to git head Monday morning. Cool ;) > I would love to see a new version released in 2011. I think we should aim to set a rough date for a release, and wo

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 08:44 +0200, michalwd1979 wrote: > >> Normally components that are on the far side are drawn with grey colour, > >> but now I can see only pins, SMD pads (drown as expected in grey) but no > >> silk screen. > >> The layout looks the same when I use TAB to flip the board or

Re: gEDA-user: PCB option --minimum polygon area

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 07:18:02PM +0200, Felix Ruoff wrote: > Hello, > > as said before, I am working on Kai-Martins patch for the > command-line options. > I am nearly ready with modifying his patch that it will fit to > actual git head. > > I have a question to the option '--minimum polygon ar

Re: gEDA-user: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8

2011-08-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> OK, so is there any option in pcb to rotate by an angle other than 90 > degrees? Cut :FreeRotateBuffer(45) Paste ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: PCB option --minimum polygon area

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello, as said before, I am working on Kai-Martins patch for the command-line options. I am nearly ready with modifying his patch that it will fit to actual git head. I have a question to the option '--minimum polygon area': What is the unit of the value? Is this in square* (where * is mm, m

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Am 14.08.2011 18:45, schrieb Andrew Poelstra: I agree with this. The Media variable isn't used, it should be gone. Ditto for the --menu-file option. Honestly, we should probably get rid of --pcb-menu as well, unless someone wants to put in the effort to: 1. Unify lesstif/gtk handling of it.

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Felix Ruoff wrote: > Hello, > > I found a commandline option '--menu-file' in the sources (main.c) > which seems to be broken. (The expected functionality is given with > the option --pcb-menu). > Even this other option is untouched in lesstif, and in Gtk

gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello, I found a commandline option '--menu-file' in the sources (main.c) which seems to be broken. (The expected functionality is given with the option --pcb-menu). Do you think the same like me that this code can be removed? I appended two patches: 0055: Removes this commandline option 0056

Re: gEDA-user: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8

2011-08-14 Thread DJ Delorie
> Second, in the past there were questions about rotating by arbitrary > angle in pcb. I think the precision reason went away when we switched to centimils, but keep in mind that rotation is *done* not *recorded*. The pads get new coordinates, recomputed each time you rotate it. Eventually you

gEDA-user: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8

2011-08-14 Thread Gus Fantanas
Hello all, I have three questions/items for discussion. Two of these have been discussed before. First, I am given a board outline in DXF format by a mechanical engineer. I can successfully convert it to pcb format (import it to qcad, print it as ps; convert it to encapsulated ps with 'ps2ep

Re: gEDA-user: PCB opengl?

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > michalwd1979 wrote: > > > Is the pcb opengl branch in the main repository now? Is there any > > "official" version of the opengl branch? > > Yes. > Since about two months > clone git://git.gpleda.org/pcb.git > will give