Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread Geoff Swan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 12.09.2011 um 16:43 schrieb DJ Delorie: 1. The easier it is to contribute, the more likely you are to be   vandalized.  Wikipedia has seen plenty of this problem.  You need   some method of authorizing trusted

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-10 Thread Geoff Swan
On 11/09/2011 9:13 AM, Markus Hitter [1]m...@jump-ing.de wrote: But how close is gEDA here? To be honest, I think gEDA couldn't be farther away. It can't even agree on an equivalent GUI design for both major tools, gschem and pcb. Instead of doing something about that, lots of

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-08 Thread Geoff Swan
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rob Butts r.but...@gmail.com wrote:   I have asked this question on this forum before but I never got a   definitive answer so forgive me for asking it again.   Does anyone know the theory behind the design of an electromagnetic   bicycle. I thought it was

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-08 Thread Geoff Swan
I've not looked into this in great detail myself, but I believe this physics suggests this could be as simple as a spinning metal (conductive) disk with a permanent magnet at an adjustable distance to the spinning disk. It sounds like you understand how it works, but are perhaps looking for the

Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike

2011-09-08 Thread Geoff Swan
  So if I have an electromagnetic and I hold it next to the spinning   metal disc as I increase the intensity of the magnetic field the metal   disc should be harder to spin? Yes.   Define conductive? The eddy current breaks says non-ferromagnetic which   means to me not having any magnetic

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-26 Thread Geoff Swan
This post kind of blew out a bit - TLDR version - I have a database idea that may be helpful in the pin swapping under discussion. The database would provide a device representation that captures *everything*. The database would help inform the pin swapping decision process rather

Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-26 Thread Geoff Swan
+1 python :) On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Andrew Poelstra [1]as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:56:40AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Opportunity to pick a more modern language, too. Something more os-agnostic, we've had issues with scheme on Windows before.

Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-25 Thread Geoff Swan
I don't claim to have any great level of experience in writing APIs at all - but I have already started some parts db stuff I would like to continue - put me down against some parts db work. cheers, Geoff On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:38 PM, DJ Delorie [1]d...@delorie.com wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: IPC standard SMT footprints (0603, 0402 vs. RESC0603N etc.)

2011-05-25 Thread Geoff Swan
01005 (0402 metric) : 0.016 × 0.008 (0.4 mm × 0.2 mm) 0201 (0603 metric) : 0.024 × 0.012 (0.6 mm × 0.3 mm) 0402 (1005 metric) : 0.04 × 0.02 (1.0 mm × 0.5 mm) 0603 (1608 metric) : 0.063 × 0.031 (1.6 mm × 0.8 mm) 0805 (2013 metric) : 0.08 × 0.05 (2.0 mm × 1.25

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-24 Thread Geoff Swan
I really don't want any *major* changes to the core workflow and UI TBH. The changes that would make this a more complete tool (for me anyway) are: PCB: - better control over polygons. Ie better awareness/ability to tie to nets, built in crosshatching (intstead of solid), and

Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-19 Thread Geoff Swan
We're going over old ground now... [1]http://www.delorie.com/pcb/component-dbs.html First, in gschem/gattrib, the the GUI has a way of querying the database for potential values of attributes - such as choosing variants, picking parts from official part lists, sticking

gEDA-user: Expansion of the footprint definition

2011-05-19 Thread Geoff Swan
I am sure there has been discussion around this in the past - but I am keen to know if there is any chance of PCBs understanding of what a footprint can contain being expanded in the near future? Primarily just two things I would really like... text and polygons... Is this

gEDA-user: polystitch vs pcb+gl_experimental

2011-05-18 Thread Geoff Swan
I have been attempting to build polystitch.c against pcb+gl_experimental without much luck. Also had some issue against pcb git head... Has anyone else had any luck with polystitch.c building against recent versions? cheers, Geoff

Re: gEDA-user: polystitch vs pcb+gl_experimental

2011-05-18 Thread Geoff Swan
cheers, I'll look more closely at me setup On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, DJ Delorie [1]d...@delorie.com wrote: I have been attempting to build polystitch.c against pcb+gl_experimental without much luck. Also had some issue against pcb git head... Has anyone else

gEDA-user: Hiding individual layers of a layer-group

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Swan
Hi folks, I've just started using separate layers so for my polygons so that I can hide them when necessary. This works fine until I group them with the appropriate layer. Ie - top and ground in a layer grouping - with ground being the layer I am putting polygons on. When I go to hide

Re: gEDA-user: Hiding individual layers of a layer-group

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Swan
wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 07:16 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 13:12:55 +0100 Peter Clifton [2]pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 21:41 +1000, Geoff Swan wrote: Hi folks, I've just started using separate layers so for my polygons so

Re: gEDA-user: Segfault in pcb when exporting (latest branch)

2011-04-23 Thread Geoff Swan
pcjc2/pcb+gl_experimental confirmed (ubuntu 10.04 AMD64) On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Link [1]l...@penguindevelopment.org wrote: On 23/04/11 05:42, Andrew Poelstra wrote: With the current git HEAD, pcb segfaults as soon as you click 'png' in the export list. Can anyone

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff Swan
I would advise a note of caution. What some people do not like is the visible :1 in schematics -- can we simple suppress that output for symbols with only one pin and digit 1 after the : That would be a not too dangerous patch, because it concerns only

Re: gEDA-user: Footprint/symbol generating scripts + question

2011-04-06 Thread Geoff Swan
(having not seen this post) I created something similar yesterday in python. It only does SMD dual column footprints with an outline - and at the moment only takes mm. I'll push it to github or something like that if folks are interested. I assumed at the time that

Re: gEDA-user: subcircuit definition and channelised design

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
impossible - feel free to give me a heads up :) cheers, Geoff Swan ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I very much like the idea of this patch :) I'll have a go at testing it. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Oldbury [1]toldb...@gmail.com wrote: I'd suggest making it an opt-out for people like me who like it as it is, but maybe I'll get used to it. On

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I had a couple of issues with the patch process - I didn't bother checking which version I should have had (i'm using 1.7.0 20110116) but went and manually patched it myself. BTW - the first hunk worked fine - it was only the second one that failed. Otherwise it seems great,

Re: gEDA-user: Tragesym template problem.

2011-03-20 Thread Geoff Swan
Last time I saw this error it was because when I saved the file, all text fields were quoted. Ie - instead of version\t01 it read version\t01 or something along those lines. I fixed with vim... :1,$s/\//g Geoff ___ geda-user

gEDA-user: subcircuit definition and channelised design

2011-03-14 Thread Geoff Swan
I am ripping off their notation) I am relatively new to gEDA - so I thought I would find out if this is theoretically possible (or been done before) before I start trying to write my own script... cheers, Geoff Swan

Re: gEDA-user: Anyone using my gedasymbols?

2011-03-13 Thread Geoff Swan
Yes On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak [1]k...@lilalaser.de wrote: Hi. I am curious: Is anyone on the list using the footprints and/or symbols in my department of [2]gedasymbols.org? ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email:

Re: gEDA-user: gschem slots with different symbols

2011-02-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I have done something like this by using multiple symbols for a single device rather than slotting. From memory all that was required was to ensure the pinseq are correct and the symbols are given the same refdes. I'm sure someone will correct me if I have missed something :P

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering iron tip turns black

2011-02-04 Thread Geoff Swan
Remember to always store your iron tips with a ball of solder on them,  this helps prevent the tip from corroding in storage. Don't wipe the tip before putting it back in the holder, your wipes on the moist sponge should be when you take the tip out of the holder. Again the molten solder on

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: directly connecting two nets?

2011-01-24 Thread Geoff Swan
I like the multiple names solution. I hadn't run into this issue until I came across gEDA symbols with hardcoded nets. Not a big issue, I tend to modify symbols now on a per project basis - so the need to have two net names for a single wire is much reduced.

Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Swan
So just to clarify - if you distribute an embedded device that runs a GPLv3 binary; to comply with the GPLv3 you must not only provide the source, but also a hardware-programmer/uploader? I suppose in most cases this isn't necessarily a huge issue - where firmware upgrade capability is built into

Re: gEDA-user: GPLv3 question

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Swan
DRM to prevent the user from changing his code when he could otherwise.  The intent is to prevent GPLed code from being locked down, trusted computing style. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Geoff Swan shinobi.j...@gmail.com wrote: So just to clarify - if you distribute an embedded device

Re: gEDA-user: QFN soldering

2010-09-12 Thread Geoff Swan
For quick breadboarding of an accelerometer I've deadbug soldered one successfully. Just superglued it upside down and soldered directly to the pads with very thin wire.. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: does anyone have experience with this package? Just

Re: gEDA-user: analog/digital partitioning

2010-07-22 Thread Geoff Swan
I came across this ([1]http://www.tentlabs.com/InfoSupport/page35/files/Supply_decoupling. pdf) some time ago. I would be interested to hear peoples thoughts as there are clearly many differing views on correct grounding and supply decoupling. The article certainly made a lot of

Re: gEDA-user: Use of Alt+Mouse1

2010-06-15 Thread Geoff Swan
Bahahhahah! No. :P Not referring to you at all. My response was targeted at timecop. Apologies if it my aim was off... *I* am?? -Dave On 6/15/10 11:38 PM, [1]shinobi.j...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. You're really looking to start arguments Sent via BlackBerry®

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was Re: gattrib)

2010-05-03 Thread Geoff Swan
Perhaps that's where the pain is, but customizing symbols takes little time, so endure the brief pain and get on with it. You can't avoid it. Even if you have a heavy symbol from somebody else's library, you have to check it carefully, and that's almost as much work as customizing.

Re: gEDA-user: Microwave simulation

2010-04-29 Thread Geoff Swan
Hi, I am very interested to find out what you choose to use for this sort of analysis. I have played a bit with qucs and agree that's a good place to start. Please post back your findings! Geoff On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:08 AM, al davis [1]ad...@freeelectron.net wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-28 Thread Geoff Swan
Most tools require some preliminary investment in terms of setting up libraries to the satisfaction of the user, plus general familiarisation. I think you will find you only need to modify your symbol once to include the appropriate SPICE directives. If you save this symbol you can

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-27 Thread Geoff Swan
Remember, the bare hardware without any software at all has the greatest potential. Every line of code added to the software system takes away from that potential. This is necessary, of course. You have the hardware for specific purposes, and the software serves these. But one should not

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol creation

2010-03-25 Thread Geoff Swan
One thing, I made it by copying the symbol for a triac. I did not pay careful attention to pin numbering. Am I going to regret that if I ever decide to do a layout / make a PCB? I guess that depends if you got the numbering wrong :P ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Realign Grid

2010-03-22 Thread Geoff Swan
Never used pcb View - Align Grid. What may be the intended function? My guess: If you realign grid, all other components will become off grid. What I did: Align the new component to the grid, by grabbing its center or a single pin. For aligning a single pin it may be necessary/helpful

gEDA-user: PCB Realign Grid

2010-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I am having some trouble with pcb View - Align Grid. I am trying to use it to align the snap grid to a component pin. However it is not having any effect. I have tried various permutations of adjusting grid size and units - turning snap to pin on and off and anything else that I thought may

Re: gEDA-user: toporouter update

2010-03-18 Thread Geoff Swan
+1 *hassle* (i really like toporouter :) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Geoff Swan
I've seen commercial tools that have some predefined grids like rectangular, polar, smith but so far none have taken it to the next level of letting you add custom ones or the custom readout. Just in case you missed it - qucs has a number of plotting outputs including a Smith chart. I don't

Re: gEDA-user: NE 555 and simulation issue

2010-03-02 Thread Geoff Swan
Seriously - simulating for things like this is not going to be the best way to design circuits.. physical variation between parts, and discrepancies between the model and reality, plus limited choices of real-world resistor values will mean it is pretty pointless trying to get any more accurate

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Swan
What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? Redesign with SOT-23.  Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. +1 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Swan
Ignoring the response(s) from timecop, I don't believe the suggestion to try sot-23 was intended to be either elitist or unhelpful. *if* the option to use a different footprint is available then in many cases there is a great deal of advantage to using the sot-23 layout. If the work is being done

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

2010-02-24 Thread Geoff Swan
don't even consider ordering boards without loading up the photoplot files into something like gerbv and doing some sanity checks. This advice applies to a design done with any layout tool and not just pcb. A minimal list would be: - From 20,000 feet, does each layer look right or are there

Re: gEDA-user: analog/code co-simulation and schematics and netlists for silicon

2010-02-23 Thread Geoff Swan
I have daydreamed about the possibility of linking gEDA with qucs and simavr/gdb for example. To be able to create a circuit layout and perform harmonic ballance simulation combined with microcontroller code simulation... Oh, and while I daydream, an integrated tool for doing FEM analysis the pcb

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Geoff Swan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: here is what i got V3  R1-1 V5  R1-2 with gsch2pcb --version gsch2pcb 1.6 Ditto. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: let's play guess the netlist with gsch2pcb!

2010-02-17 Thread Geoff Swan
Please run gschlas -e filename.sch and post the result to the list. Thanks, cat untitled.sch~ v 20090328 2 C 4 4 0 0 0 title-B.sym C 47800 46400 1 0 0 resistor-1.sym { T 48100 46800 5 10 0 0 0 0 1 device=RESISTOR T 48000 46700 5 10 1 1 0 0 1 refdes=R1 T 47600 46200 5 10 1 0 0 0 1