Re: gEDA-user: autocrop.c vs. pcb (git head)

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Jackson
tell me what the functional replacement is (or if it's simply unnecessary now) I can fix the plugin. Levente: You could simply delete that line from the source and recompile. The worst that might happen is that you have to force the screen to redraw somehow after autocropping. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: capacitors for RF power amplifier

2011-04-11 Thread Ben Jackson
as I can get. I don't know if there's any connection between the DC and AC losses. Not X7R. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Modding Nintendo 3DS controllers for accessability

2011-04-03 Thread Ben Jackson
controllers included). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb plugin smartdisperse fails on load

2011-02-24 Thread Ben Jackson
dependencies. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Jackson
faster, and it can be merged into the core later. The bulk of the solution may be in my autocrop plugin: It knows how to move everything. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Ben Jackson
and you have $200, Alibre Design works the same way. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB fab with = $5 with 50 qty order?

2011-02-16 Thread Ben Jackson
! -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Fluky Fluky layout printing problem!

2011-01-25 Thread Ben Jackson
or printing problem goes away. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB bug: invisibly select pads from deactivated far side

2011-01-05 Thread Ben Jackson
? No. Not for operations that operate on selected pads. This was an olld bug in de-selection. It worked like an anti-selection of a rectangle covering everything. Unfortunately it honored visibility and if you hid a selected item it stayed selected until you made it visible again! -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: icarus, fork, and recursive tasks

2010-11-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:32:08PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: In theory, the 3AN can drive the DVI at 1024x768x24 but we'll see how much logic I can actually cram into it. Does the 3AN really meet the DVI spec without a cable driver? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread Ben Jackson
their docs locked up like a virgin princess. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL notes on VBOs

2010-11-05 Thread Ben Jackson
DMA via subdata. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: More OpenGL ideas

2010-10-28 Thread Ben Jackson
the data into the whole 32-bit float you could probably manage to use the exponent bits too. But you can always use a 2, 3 or 4 float attribute as well. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: multiple monitors

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Jackson
and requires less head turning. It did cost $1000, though, and 20 LCDs are given away in cereal boxes these days. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: pcb minor release, C++ and Gtk cleanup

2010-09-25 Thread Ben Jackson
. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: sch2csv and csv2sch

2010-09-16 Thread Ben Jackson
since they're considered numbers. You might be able to get around this with quoting. Or hey, output ODF directly! :) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: need polygon expert again

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Jackson
showing that problem on the web page! It's OK in postscript and gui It's BAD in gerber and png That's an odd combo. PS, most flavors of GUI and gerber use the dicer to draw polygons, while PNG can use erasure, which might explain something. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: need polygon expert again

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Jackson
pins just below C2. The rectangular hole is the result of the dicer cutting through the middle of a pin (could have been any of the pins at that grid point) vertically. That slice got messed up because of the glitch by the IC. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: need polygon expert again

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Jackson
to find the bad poly-sub operation and then go back and single-step through that one. Maybe we need a debug HID. ;-) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: Diode pin numbers reversed?

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Jackson
numbering (diode-1, diode-2). The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Jackson
they happen to clone. If the public repo is separate (typically bare) and you push to it, users will not have this issue. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Jackson
on ANY standard parts library. And if you're making footprints and symbols, text files generated by scripts are FAR superior to any GUI. I'd never get 100-1000 pins right if I had to use a GUI. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Jackson
ever seen their IPC pattern / component wizard, you wouldn't be saying this. Not OT. Put up a video showing it in action. Mabye geda hackers will be inspired. I really think one thing holding back geda is that the users and developers don't have much experience with high-end tools. -- Ben

gEDA-user: Another way to make homemade vias?

2010-02-26 Thread Ben Jackson
I hadn't seen this one: http://charliex2.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/lpkf-easycontac-test/ -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: any last minute advice prior to sending out for PCB fab

2010-02-24 Thread Ben Jackson
any sequences that trigger the problem. It might be possible to just modify AVRdude to detect such sequences and modify the programming sequence to avoid them. Sort of like bit stuffing with NRZI. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: any last minute advice prior to sending out for PCB fab

2010-02-24 Thread Ben Jackson
it) and then you control both ends. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Prototype houses that do 0.031 boards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:45:22PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: Anyone know of a proto-house that will do 0.031 thick boards? I'm not there to measure it but I think the boards I got back from Sierra Proto Express's no touch service were 0.032. Thinner than I expected, anyway! -- Ben Jackson

Re: gEDA-user: what does Error while clipping PBO_SUB: 3 mean?

2010-02-10 Thread Ben Jackson
polygons using the GUI. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb join pad to polygon

2010-02-07 Thread Ben Jackson
lines and set *them* to merge with the poly. If I want low impedence I just make a + of wires. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Jackson
at all? I think so. Like others I wrote my own boxsym program so I don't know if DJ's is trying to enforce numeric pins. Here's an example of a BGA on gedasymbols: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/darrell_harmon/symbols/xilinx/index.html They have alphanumeric pin names. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Ben Jackson
the power and IO. The symbols are also at http://gedasymbols.org/user/ben_jackson/ I could upload an Altera EP2C8 set of symbols if that would help. One symbol per IO bank, power, and config, iirc. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: Pick-And-Place Extract

2010-01-25 Thread Ben Jackson
bit to the pins 1 and 2. Of course the xy position is the mathematical mean value of the three vectors and in this sense correct. But this differ from the real body center imho. Use center of the bounding box instead? The code is in src/hid/bom/bom.c PrintBOM. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-23 Thread Ben Jackson
cost about the same as Epilog's lowest-end machine (the zing). http://www.rabbitlaser.com/products/laserse.htm -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Jackson
, though, the polygon code could do all of your Inkscape steps internally. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:20:34PM -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: I have been thinking about how to do improved isolation routing. How do you differentiate between pads that must be a certain shape, like for an SMT capacitor, and islands

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Jackson
segments. Not me, that was the *other* Dave who was using inkscape, the Dave that started this thread. I'm just thread-jacking to talk about paste stencils :) I can only handle one Dave at a time! -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: soldermask clearance

2010-01-16 Thread Ben Jackson
.050mm QFP (about 0.020) with and without mask between the pads and I didn't find a big difference. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: little slivers

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:28:05PM -0800, David Griffith wrote: This sounds like the solution. Do you have any sample code or pseudocode on how to do it? Something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_calipers or one of the references from that article is probably on point. -- Ben

Re: gEDA-user: little slivers from pours

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:41:05PM -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: I meant automatic solutions which would enforce the normal DRC rules on the slivers, eliminating any smaller than the minimum trace width. (replying to myself) Actually, I think I just figured out how to fix it AND do it live

Re: gEDA-user: little slivers from pours

2010-01-09 Thread Ben Jackson
how to fix this, and I can see options for doing in in a post-processing step, but that's not really in line with PCB's other polygon updates, which are all done live. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: OT: large (29 inch) boards?

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Jackson
will go way down... -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: How do I fill?

2009-12-03 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:34:02PM +, Ineiev wrote: Try polygons. Maybe the documentation should include a snippet of a board which is a clickable image map. Then each region can link to a 'howto'. Now we just need an imagemap HID to export it... -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: Reducing the amount of jumpers

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Jackson
with kapton tape so it could be soldered flat to the board. Magnet wire is so small it didn't bunch up when taking off busses and stuff. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: More strange ideas: Start PCB layout from symbols view

2009-11-25 Thread Ben Jackson
the more laborioius 1) find, 2) click drag. Of course this is fully incompatible with gEDAs current design. Not at all. The netlister that makes PCBs could place the components somewhere other than 0,0. It just doesn't... -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: new ethernet chip...

2009-11-24 Thread Ben Jackson
where I could use something like this. Too bad they want to generate a sales lead in return for giving you a link to the datasheets. Luckily they're not bright enough to obscure the link: http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/Ethernet/ethernet_datasheet/ -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: PCB GIT: tracking inter-file moves

2009-11-16 Thread Ben Jackson
' (detect renames) are on commands like 'log', 'show', etc. So what you'd really want as a feature is not 'tracking' but the ability for merge to track functions across files just like it currently can across renames. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: Cheaper right angle component video terminal?

2009-11-16 Thread Ben Jackson
just think digikey stocks the wrong part. I've attached my footprints and symbols, which you can see in action here: http://ad7gd.net/geda/panelusb-sm.jpg The 'blade' shaped post is snug on my footprint because of the seating issue I described. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: Cheaper right angle component video terminal?

2009-11-16 Thread Ben Jackson
the panels free with an ancient embedded PC driving them. Watched Monday Night Football on it last night! :) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: Cheaper right angle component video terminal?

2009-11-16 Thread Ben Jackson
from the one I picked (which include HD and VGA inputs) don't have docs online. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Information on PCB

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Jackson
should use donated funds to fly us all to a central party^H^H^H^H^H location. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Eliminate separate Vcc planes?

2009-10-19 Thread Ben Jackson
be a problem. I remember a design with a big honking FPGA and a POLA that was a few inches away due to board constraints. Someone in a meeting mentioned that the 20A 1.2V was sagging 50mV at the FPGA. Do the math and that's only 2.5mOhm drop but still meant the *plane* was dissipating a *watt*. -- Ben

Re: gEDA-user: Barred solder mask in PCB

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Jackson
. If you want to limit the distribution you could send it to geda-dev or just the PCB developers who work on polygons (me, Peter, DJ) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: Barred solder mask in PCB

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Jackson
at different offsets). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Turning off gerber Poly Fill for square pads

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Jackson
for square pads? I don't know anything about the root of your problem, but the easiest way to avoid a problem with square pads would be to edit the pads to make them 1 wider or longer so they are no longer square (of course they'll only be out of square by .1). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

Re: gEDA-user: Turning off gerber Poly Fill for square pads

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Jackson
to work around in pcb. Gah! I wish they'd get with the program and upgrade their software already. Is it worth adding features to gerbv to warn about known issues? Some kind of fab DRC that would warn about known brokenness in other tools. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: Would like to use geda tools to make .dxf file for pcb cnc milling.

2009-08-14 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:47:13PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: CNC milling may be more or less related with this thread http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/May-2009/msg00259.html especially with the comments of Ben Jackson. BTW this is where I think you could easily spend

Re: gEDA-user: PCB - Disperse all elements don't show anything

2009-08-14 Thread Ben Jackson
footprints. So this is probably the degenerate output of some confused m4 macro. To the OP: Try using 'use-files' to your 'project' file and rerunning gsch2pcb. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: messed up ratsnest- help me understand

2009-08-01 Thread Ben Jackson
. If you fix the layer grouping (first thing in the settings menu) there's only one rat left and no shorts. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: how close to place components?

2009-07-26 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:04:13AM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: Good question. For my DSO board I have placed the 0805 parts very close, silk outline nearly touch. For 0603 with hand assembly I place parts such that the silkscreen overlaps adjacent parts (if I need close spacing). -- Ben

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Jackson
boys handle it. Obviously you can't draw wires in gschem and then swap pins in pcb and expect the wires to be asthetically re-drawn in gschem. So do you only do it with busrippers and netname attributes? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: pcb wishes

2009-06-23 Thread Ben Jackson
with vias you could try my jostle plugin which I wrote expressly for moving wires out of the way to place vias. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: Investigating gEDA for commercial use

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Jackson
is muuuch faster. VNC was significantly worse than both (at least for PCB, which is where I spend the bulk of my time). If you want to use VMWare, try http://www.easyvmx.com/ (free website that will make VMs) + VMWare Player (free download). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: pin numbering for wob package

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Jackson
multiple sizes of SMT can oscillators. And I accidentally numbered the pins clockwise. At least the extra pad area helped me blue-wire the power... -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering supplies

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Jackson
to speed the drying. Where I used to work we had a can of some kind of solvent that worked faster and dried faster but I never bought any myself. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering supplies

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Jackson
/Pb compatible tips suck for lead free. They make special (hotter) tips for lead free, which I find suck for leaded solder (can't seem to keep them wetted). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Moving selected group of grid unintentionally

2009-06-08 Thread Ben Jackson
') is to leave the affected objects on a grid. So a Align(X) on a single item will put it back on the X grid. So a key binding to Align(X); Align(Y) would put one selected item back on the grid. (Of course it would take a multi-selection and smash it all on top of each other...) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

gEDA-user: Can we fix the HTML stripping on this list?

2009-06-08 Thread Ben Jackson
only mailer which prefers the text/plain section. If we must keep mangling HTML, either remove it (if a text/plain already exists) or properly order the sections so that the original mailer's text/plain is preferred instead of the illegible output of the list's filter. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

Re: gEDA-user: PCB build changes

2009-06-01 Thread Ben Jackson
). You could push it to the repo as a branch so that other people still only had one public repo to deal with. Then after we tag and release from master you can merge it down. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: ??Error message PCB??

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:42:48AM +0200, Ernst van Spronsen wrote: Ok, How do I disable the M4 libraries? At least for this project? Thanks. In your project file add: use-files skip-m4 -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

gEDA-user: mimedel is annoying (was: collapsing or non-collapsing balls, how can i tell?)

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Jackson
as formatted by the original mailer? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: A not too serious PCB question

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Jackson
) will create loops in the skeleton, which we want to keep. Peninsulas of non copper will produce stubs (which do not serve to actually isolate any region -- imagine a P shape simplified to an O). If you use a library like CGAL these should be removed. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: Parts!

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Jackson
) and then I just try to keep kits on hand so that I know I have any value of resistor I want (currently in through-hole and 0805). Connectors I'm really bad about. I tend to go through my collection of connectors every time I need something. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: A not too serious PCB question

2009-05-13 Thread Ben Jackson
over the output (you'd probably end up drawing some spurious traces to steer it), but it could be done. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Jackson
it, but it sounds interesting. Frankly, having come to FPGAs from a long history of softare development, the FPGA guys are working with stone age tools right now. The only reason FPGA and ASIC projects get done at all is that their scope is vastly simpler than a typical software project. -- Ben

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Jackson
, rather than having to mix it in. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Jackson
. Writing Verilog is at the abstraction level of approximately a macro assembler. At the high end it might reach up into the level of BASIC. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-07 Thread Ben Jackson
it a committer can apply it with almost zero effort. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: solder jumpers

2009-05-03 Thread Ben Jackson
/zifssb/sband.html -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Change text font size in PCB

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:45:47PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: Of course: Move mousepointer over the text and press key S. Unfortunately line thickness is the board minwidth. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: getting along with git

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Jackson
, but you can recover with 'git reset --hard origin/before_pours'. You can even just do 'git fetch; git reset --hard origin/before_pours' to skip all merging/rebasing. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: Contributing components to gEDA

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Jackson
on a column cause the internal pullups to take several clocks to rise. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: SystemPerl Integer overflow in

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Jackson
into this? Is this a problem? Perl uses host integer width. Those tests may not fail on a 64 bit perl. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gschem, alert if symbols in schematic have changed?

2009-04-12 Thread Ben Jackson
global sources, only embedded and local directories. I know some people use a similar workflow already, but maybe we should automate it to encourage people. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Problem building gEDA from git repository

2009-04-10 Thread Ben Jackson
'autogen.sh'. It makes configure and Makefile.in (from Makefile.am). Yet another level of automake indirection! configure: creating ./config.status Maybe someone committed a configure but not a Makefile.in? It should probably be removed from the repo if it exists. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com

Re: gEDA-user: FT232R

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:12:10PM -0700, William Estrada wrote: Hi group, Does anyone have a sym file for the FT232RL? Attached. I used this successfully in a design. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ v 20061020 1 B 300 600 1500 3800 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 T

Re: gEDA-user: FT232R

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Jackson
think the GNU radio guys use one of those to pump data to/from a Cyclone FPGA). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: terminators

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:03:36PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: I tried adding serpentines but there isn't enough room to add more Excellent news for PCB, though. If DJ has trouble laying out serpentines or trombones, a plugin is sure to follow. ;-) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: terminators

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Jackson
/fail you'd need a very fast (6G+) scope. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: outline layer

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Jackson
, board edge is on-center) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: outline layer

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Jackson
your vendor. I've used 0.025 before at a place with 8/8 rules. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: terminators

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Jackson
probes and other connectors (typically mictor) and cost $1500/set. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: rat width

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Jackson
, which is a big help as well. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: the joy and sadness of new boards

2009-04-01 Thread Ben Jackson
with an angle grinder? You have balls of steel! -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Orange pins in PCB

2009-04-01 Thread Ben Jackson
. These happen when your pin is slightly off grid and your line settings cause the tiny makeup angle to be at the end of the line. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi

Re: gEDA-user: DRC UI mockup

2009-03-29 Thread Ben Jackson
by common cause (insufficient clearance, too-small annular ring, etc). Plus it could have buttons like force annular ring to min size. I also like the idea of a DRC layer. I think you still need something like the dialog to help you navigate it. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http

Re: gEDA-user: How to fit REFDES on PCB with Hierarchy

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Jackson
the gerbers. That's another thing we can't express.) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 0/4][PCB] Color setting updates

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Jackson
colour schemes that seem wierd to normal people. I agree. Personally, I'd say that a .pcb file should describe the attributes of the PCB itself, not how the application should display it. Things like display colours of layers should be defined by the user's global settings. I agree. -- Ben

Re: gEDA-user: Stupid symbol tricks

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:51 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: I just spent a couple hours debugging a half-broken AVR microcontroller which was due to me putting GND and UGND (USB GND) far apart on the symbol and forgetting to connect

Re: gEDA-user: PostScript output - moving off-center?

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Jackson
. Even when producing gerbers you will create an 'outline' layer to define the actual PCB area for the manufacturer. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

gEDA-user: Stupid symbol tricks

2009-02-28 Thread Ben Jackson
will figure out how to use the DRC backends of gnetlist now... -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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