Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread Evan Foss
Yea!! This is fantastic! On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Hi. A few minutes ago, I fetched the latest PCB sources from git and recompiled. Surprise: The resulting binary includes translucent tracks and polygons! This is both, beautiful and

Re: gEDA-user: OT?: Altium (Protel) Relocates From Sydney Australia to Shanghai China

2011-04-11 Thread Evan Foss
Yea, I second the last part of the. If you have a large library of parts done in a particular tool you will have to redraft all of them. That is not good. On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:19 AM, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote: snip The

Re: gEDA-user: Anyone using my gedasymbols?

2011-03-14 Thread Evan Foss
I believe so. Thank you for sharing them. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: Hi. I am curious: Is anyone on the list using the footprints and/or symbols in my department of gedasymbols.org? ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email:

Re: gEDA-user: PCB antenna pattern

2011-01-13 Thread Evan Foss
Make a symbol and matching footprint for the antenna. It is a functional element in the design. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Kovacs Levente leventel...@gmail.com wrote: I am designing a zigbee interface, and I am using an inverted F antenna out of PCB pattern. The problem is that the

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Evan Foss
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Evan Foss wrote: I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot of other formats already written. It might be worse

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Evan Foss
Hi, I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot of other formats already written. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Gentoo pcb-20100929.ebuild

2010-10-17 Thread Evan Foss
Great I will give it a whirl. Thank you. On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote: I have send it to the developers, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341489 may take some days to go into the official tree, if you need it now, you may pull it from

Re: gEDA-user: No Diode in PCB?

2010-04-02 Thread evan foss
Search in PCB for ALF. That is what I use for threw hole diodes. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote:   Is there no diode in the default PCB symbol directories?   Thanks,   Chris Maness ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: No Diode in PCB?

2010-04-02 Thread evan foss
Oh yea I have my own diode symbols I use with it just to avoid issue. Sorry. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 16:31 -0400, evan foss wrote: Search in PCB for ALF. That is what I use for threw hole diodes. But BEWARE... the ALF diodes

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-02-28 Thread evan foss
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH chitlesh.goo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: I just got aware of the open source mechanical CAD project freecad. It hit the debian repository a month ago. Although it is still

gEDA-user: PCB Solder Tabs

2010-02-05 Thread evan foss
Hi, I would like to make threw hole solder tabs (not holes). The best description of how to do this in PCB was from this email.. http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Feb-2005/msg00111.html Has the process improved since then? Thanks, Evan ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Kudos

2009-11-07 Thread evan foss
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:02:33PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: On 11/03/2009 12:35 PM, Duncan Drennan wrote: * gschem magnetic nets - always seem to snap to the wrong thing for me so I end up turning them off always.

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-10-14 Thread evan foss
Thanks guys. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote: 2009/9/30 Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk: Try adding the following to your gafrc:  (load (build-path geda-rc-path print-colormap-lightbg)) Thanks, Peter, that works for me and I've update

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-10-01 Thread evan foss
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:15:55 +, evan foss wrote: I would be happy to have it stay text only. Otherwise the settings that get pulled in from the users .gschemrc and the projects .gschemrc will get confused

gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread evan foss
Hi, I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both 1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830 and found that it won't work. Is anyone else having this problem? My gschemrc file has (output-color enabled) ; for color postscript output (image-color enabled) ; for color PNG output

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread evan foss
Thank you. I will install that version too and run it to test my configuration. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Dave McGuire mcgu...@neurotica.com wrote: On Sep 30, 2009, at 11:37 AM, evan foss wrote: I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both 1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread evan foss
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 30 September 2009 21:23:06 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:43 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dang. It really is bust. *grumble* Okay, I managed to get it working by making sure that my

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg (why live CD wouldn't work)

2009-08-02 Thread evan foss
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, igor2ig...@inno.bme.hu wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, evan foss wrote: You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it is dvd now. Perhaps we should have an electronics live disk of some kind? For a few semesters I was teaching gschem/pcb for undergrads

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg (why live CD wouldn't work)

2009-08-02 Thread evan foss
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Bob Paddockbob.padd...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, evan fossevanf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, igor2ig...@inno.bme.hu wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, evan foss wrote: You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-01 Thread evan foss
You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it is dvd now. Perhaps we should have an electronics live disk of some kind? On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Bob Paddockbob.padd...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Towards a better symbol/package pin-mapping strategy

2009-06-30 Thread evan foss
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Stephan Boettcherboettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de wrote: Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com writes: pick a small set of some chips you care about.  lets say a large family of the AVR series. To the symbol:       Add a virtual pin attribute       Add the pin

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for PCB fab recommendations

2009-06-19 Thread evan foss
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Michael Sokolovmsoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: * SnPb finish - this one is an absolute requirement for ideological /   philosophical reasons, RoHS crap is *not* acceptable. In the nicest possible way, WTF? RoHS is

Re: gEDA-user: geda for open hardware

2009-06-17 Thread evan foss
The solution I always liked was making a simple live CD with the project documentation and all. This is not for distribution it is because about every 6 or 7 years I end up changing tools and can't find anything to read my old stuff. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, KURT PETERSpetersk...@msn.com

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf unstable/development snapshot 1.5.2-20090328 released!

2009-04-06 Thread evan foss
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 21:33 -0400, evan foss wrote: I have been using this release and I have a question. Did you guys change the interpritation of gafrc? I keep loading a schematic and it doesn't seem to render the symbols

Re: gEDA-user: Putting holes in hard steel - was - Re: the joy and sadness of new boards

2009-04-03 Thread evan foss
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, andrewm andr...@thehacktory.com wrote: If anybody has a better idea, yelp. EDM ? Don't you aready need a hole to run the wire threw? Or are you just going to live with a very thin line cut threw to the hole? If your are going to spend EDM level money water

Re: gEDA-user: Putting holes in hard steel - was - Re: the joy and sadness of new boards

2009-04-03 Thread evan foss
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009, evan foss wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, andrewm andr...@thehacktory.com wrote: If anybody has a better idea, yelp. EDM ? Don't you aready need a hole to run the wire threw? A hole

Re: gEDA-user: gschem Bus tutorial

2009-04-01 Thread evan foss
Someone with rights on the wiki should add at least a link to that email there. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Paul Tan pt75...@aim.com wrote: Hi Ed, In general, current gEDA architecturally supports any kinds of BUS implementation. Specifically, current Gschem/Gnetlist Verilog netlister

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Branch.. now with less memory leakage!

2009-04-01 Thread evan foss
Funny title On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Aside from the two minor leak fixes I just committed to the PCB GIT repository, there was a pretty horrendous leak of polygon contours introduced in the PCB+GL branch, which is now fixed. (Now I can do my DRC

Re: gEDA-user: datasheet

2009-03-12 Thread evan foss
NTE/ECG/Philips sells chips that are pin for pin replacements for a lot of things. The thing is that the part number they use frequently don't match what anyone else uses. I looked up your part number in a reference book from 1996 and got this Dual M/S J-K Flip-Flop 5MHz I have the pin out too if

Re: gEDA-user: datasheet

2009-03-12 Thread evan foss
prettier in my opinion. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, evan foss evanf...@gmail.com wrote: NTE/ECG/Philips sells chips that are pin for pin replacements for a lot of things. The thing is that the part number they use frequently don't match what anyone else uses. I looked up your part number

Re: gEDA-user: OT: You-Blew-It Electronics (was: Re: Home PCB and Liquid Tin)

2009-03-07 Thread evan foss
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Stuart Brorson s...@cloud9.net wrote: Apropos You-Blew-It Electronics, here's a link to those unfamiliar with this Boston institution: http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/ Ok I know their prices are significantly higher than mail order from almost everywhere

Re: gEDA-user: Home PCB and Liquid Tin

2009-03-06 Thread evan foss
Ok I know their prices are significantly higher than mail order from almost everywhere but why is it You-Blew-It? While we are a little OT am I the only one who misses the days when they carried more components and fewer audio video cables. They are getting to much like radio shack. On Fri, Mar

Re: gEDA-user: Digilent USB-JTAG and Lattice

2009-02-18 Thread evan foss
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Eric Winsor e...@winsor.us wrote: I have been using the Digilent USB-JTAG cable to program Xilinx devices and now am working with some Lattice CPLDs in a new project. Does anyone know of some JTAG programming software that will recognize the Digilent USB-JTAG

Re: gEDA-user: fyi: program to enter spreadsheet contents into a Digi-Key web-order

2009-02-13 Thread evan foss
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: might add a delay to the add action make it like a human is entering them :-P I don't think Digikey cares how you are ordering. hardkrash On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Tim Hanson wrote: Hi All, I wrote this

Re: gEDA-user: What is the logic in gnetlist/spice-sdb when to add a 'X' prefix to an identifier?

2009-02-10 Thread evan foss
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, al davis ad...@freeelectron.net wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009, Christoph Lechner wrote: How can it know? Well, I thought: maybe there's some attribute dedicated to this case ... The Spice netlister is loaded with special cases, because the Spice syntax

Re: gEDA-user: Clipboard support in gschem

2009-01-24 Thread evan foss
Great work. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: Hi everyone, The unstable version of gschem now supports copying and pasting schematic data within and between gschem instances using the X clipboard (or the Windows clipboard on Windows). This feature

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread evan foss
On 1/3/09, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR]; The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. It's only true and relevent when an application

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-23 Thread evan foss
On 9/23/08, John Luciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM, David C. Kerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of evan foss Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:55 PM

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-22 Thread evan foss
On 9/22/08, John Luciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dave N6NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Just seeing what happens to all those taxes that we send out East...) It's not all for museums --- On behalf of the Bostonians on the list let me say thanks for your

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-22 Thread evan foss
On 9/22/08, Dave McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:12 PM, evan foss wrote: (Just seeing what happens to all those taxes that we send out East...) It's not all for museums --- The last time I was in the Boston Science Museum with my cousin I could not help

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread evan foss
I think that is a gyroscope. Those things connecting the rings are likely resolvers or encoders of some kind. On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a

Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

2008-09-21 Thread evan foss
On 9/21/08, Steve Morss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Luciani wrote: Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw. Pictures of the MIT Gehry building are at the bottom of the page. (* jcl

Re: gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

2008-09-07 Thread evan foss
On 9/6/08, John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Butts wrote: Hey John, I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who couldn't wait to get their hands on this project. I gave them the measurements of my backrest and they are running with this. It

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf 1.4.0 and pcb 20080202 marked stable for Gentoo-Linux

2008-04-12 Thread evan foss
I would do an -pv just to check the USE flags. On 4/12/08, Stefan Salewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gEDA/gaf 1.4.0 and pcb 20080202 are marked stable now in Gentoo-Linux (for x86, amd64, ppc and sparc). So for installation all you have to do is: emerge geda emerge pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Spice files

2008-04-07 Thread evan foss
The copyright is from the vendors not cadence. I am not a lawyer but that would seem to mean that they don't want anyone to copy the content they have there and redistribute it. They probably worked out agreements with the vendors there to put all there content on one page. I think you just have

Re: gEDA-user: Gerbv with OpenGL

2007-12-03 Thread evan foss
On Dec 3, 2007 1:24 PM, Dave McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Can you import VRML into mechanical CAD? My CAD application, varicad, can't. Varicad seems to be the only serious 3D-CAD available for linux. I would be nice, if pcb could

Re: gEDA-user: Gerbv with OpenGL

2007-12-03 Thread evan foss
On Dec 3, 2007 9:39 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:50:30 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Can you import VRML into mechanical CAD? My CAD application, varicad, can't. Varicad seems to be the only serious 3D-CAD available for linux. I would be nice, if pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Gerbv with OpenGL

2007-12-02 Thread evan foss
On Dec 2, 2007 7:40 PM, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:10 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Here is another teaser.. http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gerbv_translucent.png And another... This is getting less useful, but more pretty..

Re: gEDA-user: Gerbv with OpenGL

2007-12-02 Thread evan foss
Do you have the option of disabling the opengl code at run time if you want or is it compiled in? -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Gerbv with OpenGL

2007-12-02 Thread evan foss
On Dec 2, 2007 9:47 PM, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 20:42 -0500, evan foss wrote: Do you have the option of disabling the opengl code at run time if you want or is it compiled in? Not only is it compiled in, the board size is hard-coded. (Its a demo so far

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gschem: is guile regex module important?

2007-11-20 Thread evan foss
On 11/18/07, Peter TB Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2007 22:52:14 evan foss wrote: Try flipping a pin horizontally with out it. On my box that terminates gschem. I had to recompile guile with it a few days ago. This probably needs to be fixed, then. Fancy filing

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gschem: is guile regex module important?

2007-11-18 Thread evan foss
Try flipping a pin horizontally with out it. On my box that terminates gschem. I had to recompile guile with it a few days ago. On Nov 18, 2007 6:44 PM, Stefan Salewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, last update of my Gentoo-Linux installed a new version of guile (version 1.8.2): Rebuild

Re: gEDA-user: ngspice simulation with microcontrollers

2007-09-26 Thread evan foss
On 9/26/07, John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Doty wrote: . Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use a model of some of the micro's inouts that is 2-way connected with a math model in Mathomatic, Octave, Mathematica? For modeling some DSP being done with the HW multiply in a

Re: gEDA-user: buzzing board

2007-09-14 Thread evan foss
Ok, here's a random thought. What if the hotplate reflow delaminated one of the layers? You'd still need a cause, but it would make the cause's minimum size smaller. Of course, there's no *visible* effect on the pcb from the hotplate, not even a mild yellowing on the back. How good is the

Re: gEDA-user: buzzing board

2007-09-13 Thread evan foss
Not to be insulting but is the speaker connected? -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: buzzing board

2007-09-13 Thread evan foss
What kind of alarm does your alarm clock use? -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: buzzing board

2007-09-13 Thread evan foss
I have had audio amplifiers and large transistors in general buzz on their own. Are you sure it is really on standby? -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: 4-bit_12-LED.png (PNG Image, 1024x768 pixels)

2007-04-10 Thread evan foss
Why is the 2nd bad? Suppose one of those wires got close but you didnt' connect that last grid space? Suppose you fax the schematic to someone and it is hard to tell solder dots or no solder dots? Suppose some older CAD tool you once used had a bug and didn't always include all 4 nets.

Re: gEDA-user: 4-bit_12-LED.png (PNG Image, 1024x768 pixels)

2007-04-10 Thread evan foss
[snip] it still bothers me though. It is like the fact that I can't get an omega symbol after a resistors value. I just checked in an upper case omega font file into CVS that I've had sitting around for a while along with the magic to make it work. However, I haven't confirmed that omegas show

Re: gEDA-user: Page contents browser

2007-04-06 Thread evan foss
On 4/6/07, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 00:22 -0400, evan foss wrote: That is so cool. I can't wait to see it with say tabs. Thanks. I just posted another example - with an idea of how buses might be represented. (This takes buses further than their current

Re: gEDA-user: Page contents browser

2007-04-05 Thread evan foss
That is so cool. I can't wait to see it with say tabs. On 4/5/07, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm playing with producing a page tree to operate with libgeda / gschem, so the hierarchy or content of a page can be seen easily. In addition to being nice, it allows certain

Re: gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

2007-04-03 Thread evan foss
I don't think that is cluttered at all. I typically end up with multiple gschem windows open any way, this is less cluttered. I just have one question how do you open and close the tabs. Is it like firefox (right click). -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/

Re: gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

2007-04-03 Thread evan foss
I like the tabs. They would be just as useful if in a toolbar section. They will cause less clutter there than as a separate PageManager window... I thought the point was to reduce the number of windows you have open. I suppose you could make it user selectable but that would add

Re: gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

2007-04-03 Thread evan foss
On 4/3/07, Karl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, my Firefox has a close tab button on the right of each tab. That seems to be very effective. Middle-clicking on the tab is a faster way to close it, if you know that trick - it's faster because you only have to aim for the tab (not the little

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread evan foss
I used to use SuSE 9.0 on a PII but that failed eventually. (HDD crash) SuSE is good for starters but 9.0 wouldn't build later versions of gEDA for some reason. (that might have been related to the HDD problem) I used SuSE starting on version 6.3 and stayed until 9.2. I am currently on gentoo. I

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Windows install

2007-02-21 Thread evan foss
Hello, I used to run the last gEDA release on my Pentium II with 64MB of RAM. I compiled from scratch. If you can run [EMAIL PROTECTED] gEDA should work. The problem(s) you might have as a newbie are all dependency related. At least that was what bothered me. -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/

Re: gEDA-user: Pointer to 3d CAD?

2006-10-31 Thread evan foss
I have not tried it but if you look at http://ftp.brlcad.org/VolumeIV-Converting_Geometry.pdf it talks about STL file. STL Import and Export according to page 18. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Vericad?

2006-08-30 Thread evan foss
Have you looked at brl-cad or qcad. BRL-Cad is nice but I don't know what state the DXF output is in. It is however free so it can't hurt to try. QCad has DXF but I have had issues with it in the past. You might want to check with some of the Linux-CNC people.