Re: gEDA-user: pcb drc checks before releasing pcb || cost diff. from vendor to vendor

2009-03-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:06 -0500, Mark Rages wrote: If you are really unsure about the design, check out Advanced Circuits' barebones special. I really like Advanced Circuits. You can use their FreeDFM.com service to review your design even if you don't end up deciding to use them for your

Re: gEDA-user: PCB - How To Find A Component?

2009-02-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:10 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: What I really want to do is implement my tetris plugin idea which feeds you the elements in a natural order for you to place. Oohhh ;-) Bdale ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded Symbols

2009-01-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 17:10 -0500, John Luciani wrote: Is there a command line switch or a script that will take an existing schematic and embed all of the symbols? I don't know, but I was going to ask the same question sometime soon... Bdale ___

Re: gEDA-user: Guerilla marketing...

2009-01-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:34 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: I suspect that interest in both zero-cost *and* true FOSS EDA stuff will increase as the world economy continues to tank That would certainly be nice. FWIW, I've seen folks use various licenses with different degrees of success for open

Re: gEDA-user: 8 pin SOIC footprint

2009-01-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:38 -0500, Rob Butts wrote: I looked in PCB; is the 8 pin SOIC called SO8? That's one of them. Be careful, though, experience has shown that there's more than one part width that silicon vendors call a SOIC. I've gotten to the point where I check every footprint's

Re: gEDA-user: [RFC 6/6] Generation of log files

2009-01-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 21:37 -0700, John Doty wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Steve Meier wrote: To me the idea of a app.log associated with a project is that if some step in the project goes GAK I would like to know why. The basic problem is that the software's point of view is not

Re: gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

2009-01-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:11 +1100, Susan Mackay wrote: especially if other amateur radio people are interested in what I've created and I can order multiple boards. Ok, I'll bite... now you've got me curious about what you're working on... ;-) 73 - Bdale, KB0G

Re: gEDA-user: Footprint with thermal paddle

2009-01-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
loaded and turned on that uses it! Bdale #!/usr/bin/python # Copyright 2008 by Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com. GPLv2 # # Program to emit PCB footprint for QFN36 package used by TI CC # # dimensions in mm from the TI ccf32.pdf datasheet PinWidth = 0.28 PinResist = 0.381

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 07:26 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Mike Crowe wrote: I don't know if putting gschem netlist data or the graphics data into a database helps with much, as relationalism there doesn't seem to be of much benefit. Relationalism may not

Re: gEDA-user: one fix for building under Solaris

2009-01-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:31 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: It's a useful tautology if it helps us remain portable, or at least understand our porting issues. Me, I'd go with whatever shell Posix specifies, and leave it up to the OS to provide something that conforms. Yes, that's clearly the best

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

2009-01-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
to intolerable, depending on what you're trying to do. For me, crippling is usually about the right level. Seen in other people's quote files, to my immense pleasure and amusement: Life is too short to run proprietary software. -- Bdale Garbee I've taken to calling it 'secret source software

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

2008-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 07:33 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: So, does anybody in here have recommendations for a good laptop? Or do you have any laptops to avoid? I'm a gEDA user who happens to work for HP in a relevant role. See www.gag.com/~bdale for details if you wish. All of the notebook