gEDA-user: Stencil and Pick and Place

2010-04-27 Thread Ian Chapman
I've not run PCB for a couple of years. Is there a way to generate a stencil and pick and place files for the fab shops. The fab shops seem able to generate them from gerbers but that implies that the operator correctly reads the silk screen and copper layers. Ian. ___

gEDA-user: Fab, Pick and Place, Stencil

2010-04-27 Thread Ian Chapman
I've not run PCB for a couple of years. Is there a way to generate a stencil and pick and place files for the fab shops. The fab shops seem able to generate them from gerbers but that implies that the operator correctly reads the silk screen and copper layers. Ian. ___

gEDA-user: GTKWave

2009-01-24 Thread Ian Chapman
Working with GHDL and GTKWave is fine. Once I get the waveforms on the screen in an order that makes sense how do I save that for the next time I enter GTKWave? What are export VCD and LXT files? Regards Ian. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@mo

Re: gEDA-user: GTKWave scroll in interactive mode

2008-11-30 Thread Ian Chapman
It's a bit since I used it. Same way as you actually. I was using ghdl to generate the waveforms file. There is (if memory right) top right a reload tab and that brings up the new waves that I generated from ghdl. Scrolling I'm not able to remember but a combination of view increase decrease and

Re: gEDA-user: Thermal relief

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Chapman
> > You know you can choose from different Thermal types -- press SHIFT key > when using Thermal tool. Thanks, that's fixed it. I can even make a direct connection without a thermal relief, just great for a screw connection. Regards Ian. ___ geda-u

gEDA-user: Thermal relief

2008-09-30 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi all, I have some large currents and I have 0.250" mounting holes to connect to the ground plane. I can reduce the clearance using "shift k" but I'm not able to get a substantial thermal relief. The four traces from the pin annulus to the ground plane are so thin that they may evaporate

Re: gEDA-user: update symbol

2008-09-19 Thread Ian Chapman
This looks like a serious (big symbol) take a look at http://www.gedasymbols.org/ Then look into DJ Delorie who has djboxsym and John Griessen has jgboxsym and they make it easy to generate a symbol. Regards Ian. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG

Re: gEDA-user: Spice

2008-09-10 Thread Ian Chapman
Okay, I've got it up and running. GNUCAP did not understand help or tutorial, build was understood. I've read the documentation on the home page and I'm asking ... "what do I do?" Where do I get a kick start? Stewart Bronson's "Spice How To" seems to suggest "gnetlist Spice sheet1.sch sheet2.sch

Re: gEDA-user: Spice

2008-09-10 Thread Ian Chapman
Gnucap is here, the lead developer is here, and cares about gEDA. As to the "latest vendor models" If you get the development version, gnucap supports BSIM-4.6.2, which was just released this summer. Gnucap had support for it about a week after the official release from Berkeley. Can a

gEDA-user: Spice

2008-09-10 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi all, I've used MC5 since quite some time and I like it though it is getting dated. My main hick is not supporting the latest vendor models that use the latest spice. I can live with the win3.1 its 16 bit engine. Of course there is the latest update at a cost that is outside my bu

gEDA-user: Missing trace

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Chapman
I have almost finished debugging the mostly SMT part of my new board. (I'll send DJ a photograph once fully assembled). It's going much better than I thought it would. I have three annoyances due to missing three traces. Backtracking to the schematic they are signals between sheets. I used the

Re: gEDA-user: Using Gerbv

2008-08-22 Thread Ian Chapman
I seem to remember that in place of exporting gerbers export to postscript. I think the utility ps2pdf is a standard linux thing. I hope this helps. Ian. Ian Chapman ALFT Inc 302 Legget Drive Kanata K2K-1Y5 Canada 613-287-0470 (227) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: gEDA-user: Footprints over the edge

2008-08-09 Thread Ian Chapman
> In general, it is best to set the PCB size larger than the board you > intend to make, and define the size / shape of the manufactured board by > drawing on a layer named "outline" (name is special magic to ensure PCB > doesn't put through-hole pads on it). > What I did with my last board was t

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Zip application

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Chapman
Try "man zip" or info "zip" to get the syntax. = What Linux application can I use to zip gerbers into that works with 4pcb.com? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/

Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Ian Chapman
1. Installation: - There is no way to have non-copper holes (even adding 0x08 to the flags does not help) - forget it == Pin[-39800 0 7500 2000 6500 5550 "Pin_2" "2" "pin"] Pin[21800 0 7500 2000 6500 5550 "H1" "3" "hole"] Hole I guess goes onto the unplated drill fil

gEDA-user: libgeda-1.4.0 error

2008-07-22 Thread Ian Chapman
I have updated from gEDA 1.2 to 1.4 from the many tarballs. Maybe I should have un-installed first. When I run gschem I get this error *** gschem: error while loading shared libraries: libgeda.so.33: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) *** errr 1.2 was installed from tarbal

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of locking

2008-07-21 Thread Ian Chapman
> Is it normal behavior? If yes, why? Normal, but perhaps not ideal. That's what I have found from using pcb. I also noted looking at the pcb file with a basic editor "gedit" that there was a lock on the component and a lock on each pin. Maybe that's a nerve end for future development err lock

Re: gEDA-user: Making PCB parts

2008-07-19 Thread Ian Chapman
http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/ If you scan this link there is a link to land patterns pdf. This may be what you need. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Nvidia-glx-new

2008-07-19 Thread Ian Chapman
E: nvidia-glx-new: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Hi, whenever I try to apt-get a dependency for pcb I get this message from the package manager. Is it important? Regards Ian. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.se

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:35 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > It's just another library you have to find the package for and > install. On Fedora it's in libXpm. libxpm-dev fixed that one. now I have undefined ref to gdImageJpeg. Both libjpeg62-dev and libgraphviz-dev failed to fix it. __

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:08 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > gd.h is part of the GD library (libgd). If your distro doesn't have > it, you can download it off the net. It's very unlikely to have been > installed by default. make has advanced quite a long way but /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lXpm causing an

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 19:54 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote: > > That would be gtk2-devel. There's a pattern to it all :-) > I'm not able to find that in the package manager. sudo apt-get install > gtk2-devel returned E: Couldn't find package gtk2-devel. I've looked in

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
> That would be gtk2-devel. There's a pattern to it all :-) I'm not able to find that in the package manager. sudo apt-get install gtk2-devel returned E: Couldn't find package gtk2-devel. I've looked in the package manager to change/add repositories but not figured that out yet.

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
> It was the package manager that was open. Thanks again. Running make the first error is In file included from hid/gtk/gtkhid-main.c:28: hid/gtk/gui.h36:21/:error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory. According to the package manager gtk2-engines is installed. I guess I am missing something e

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:42 +0200, Jan Wagemakers wrote: > Ian Chapman schreef: > > >> I don't use ubuntu, but doesn't "apt-get install build-essential" do the > >> job? > > I gave it a try with and without sudo. > > E:Could n

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
> > I don't use ubuntu, but doesn't "apt-get install build-essential" do the > job? > I gave it a try with and without sudo. E:Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: YLbabke ti kicj tge adnubustratuib durectirt, (/var/lib/dpgk/), is anothe p

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks Jan that's fixed it. It also told me that I needed flex and that was simple. Thanks again Ian. > > libc6-dev > > ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:53 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory > > Looks like you're missing glibc-devel That's not in the package manager for either of my systems. My AMD64 version did not give a problem when I updated February. I can get g

Re: gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:34 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > configure: failed program was: > > /* confdefs.h. */ > > #define PACKAGE NAME "pcb" etc > > We really need to see the "etc" part. There's a compiler error in > there somewhere. Sorry that it's so big. Here it is. Regards Ian. This fil

gEDA-user: Install

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I am installing pcb onto Xubuntu Hardy. ./Configure tells me that gcc is not able to create executables. config.log contains configure: failed program was: /* confdefs.h. */ #define PACKAGE NAME "pcb" etc I do have gcc on this machine. Any ideas? Regards Ian.

Re: gEDA-user: Gsch2pcb for Ubuntu

2008-07-04 Thread Ian Chapman
I'm not the person to answer. My experience Gutsy use Gutsy, Hasty use Hasty. Else you end up cleaning the disk win problem fixing style. I suspect that these are a Ubuntu version of deb files and are not to be confused with exe or bin stuff. They have dependencies and can be super frustrating.

Re: gEDA-user: Gsch2pcb for Ubuntu

2008-07-04 Thread Ian Chapman
I guess that you are using Ubuntu Hardy Herron. Based on my experience using the package manager you are at least one year behind current. Best to do it from the tarball else you run into bugs that have been fixed. Regards Ian. I am in the midst of switching from FreeBSD to Linux. So happens,

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC a bit odd

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:31 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:34:11PM -0400, Ian Chapman wrote: > > Hi, My pcb has passed DFM at a two fab shops (4pcb and Sierra) with 5.8 > > mil spacing. When I set file/preferences/size/DRC cu space to 5 mil and > > ru

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC a bit odd

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:56 -0400, John Luciani wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ian Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Hi, My pcb has passed DFM at a two fab shops (4pcb and > Sierra) with 5.8 > mil spacing. When I set file/preferences

gEDA-user: pcb DRC a bit odd

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, My pcb has passed DFM at a two fab shops (4pcb and Sierra) with 5.8 mil spacing. When I set file/preferences/size/DRC cu space to 5 mil and run pcb drc it gives me the x, y to the centre point of a highlighted race and I'm not able to see why. Any ideas? Regards Ian.

gEDA-user: Gnetlist bom

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
Please excuse my post without a subject. Hi again, how do I pull a bill of material out of the schematic? The documentation and Google leave me wondering if it is a work in process and which version of bom I should use. BOM / BOM2 - Bill of Materials (-g bom and -g bom2) * Partslist 1,2,3 -

gEDA-user: (no subject)

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi again, how do I pull a bill of material out of the schematic? The documentation and Google leave me wondering if it is a work in process and which version of bom I should use. BOM / BOM2 - Bill of Materials (-g bom and -g bom2) * Partslist 1,2,3 - More Bill of Materials (-g partslist[1-3])

gEDA-user: Frontpast

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi all, do you use a surface mount frontpast layer? What does fab do with it and is it recommended for a hand solder job? Regards Ian. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: PCB layer/signal selection

2008-06-24 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks DJ that's fixed it. /,lock/ to // and /lock/ to // On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 16:25 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Save your PCB to disk. Bring up the file in a text editor and search > for the word "lock". Remove them if you find any. Now bring the > board up in pcb again and everything will be

gEDA-user: PCB layer/signal selection

2008-06-24 Thread Ian Chapman
I'm not sure how to describe this. I have a blotch on one of my pads that is causing a short to a trace. It's on the top layer red layer but the blotch is light blue, the same light blue as my ground plane. The ground plane is usually dark blue so I guess the grounds are inadvertently selected b

Re: gEDA-user: Ground color

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks Kai but it's not that. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:21 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:27:56 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote: > > > At some point after playing with the net window the ground > > plane changed from dark blue to light blue. > >

gEDA-user: Routing comments

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Chapman
Here are a few observations while routing my PCB. The auto route usually works great on a limited number of short traces with a good placement. It was also impressive on the last dozen long traces with the near empty fourth routing layer. Sometimes it fails to route on a very simple short trace b

gEDA-user: Ground color

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Chapman
I have finally got the last trace onto my ambitious board and thanks for all the help. At some point after playing with the net window the ground plane changed from dark blue to light blue. I'm not able to darken it with clicking the usual things. Is this significant? Regards Ian. _

Re: gEDA-user: egg on face removed... but why...?

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Chapman
xgsch2pcb handles this all for you, and can also update new components into a running copy of PCB. (It drops them in a pile in the top corner). I must try Peter's xgsch2pcb but I am a wee bit wary of dropping components onto the PCB. The pins have a nasty knack of sticking to existing traces an

Re: gEDA-user: Ground +5V confusion

2008-06-16 Thread Ian Chapman
What I was looking at was the report window that opens most but not each time I optimize rats. Thanks for all the help. I made a 3.3V symbol from a 5V symbol and failed to change the net to 3.3V:1 and that gave the ring on that resistor and I was able to connect to ground and get the short 5V to gn

gEDA-user: Ground +5V confusion

2008-06-14 Thread Ian Chapman
I have a ground plane and I keep connecting 5V to it because the rats show up as an orange ring on both. Eventually o tells me I've messed up but it lets me advance too far and back tracking takes a lot of time. The schematic has a mixture of +5V symbols (power 5V plus) and off page connectors (io

gEDA-user: PCB component locking

2008-06-05 Thread Ian Chapman
Is there a GLOBAL lock to lock the entire layout so that nothing moves as I rout the board? I know how to lock and unlock individual components. I would just like to make sure that all is locked in place such that a careless click does not get me into a mess. Regards Ian. ___

gEDA-user: gschem Segmentation fault

2008-06-05 Thread Ian Chapman
Here is what was in the terminal window if anyone is interested. Regards Ian. conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details. Loading schematic [/home/stanley82/Artwork/Controller2/untitled_1.sch] Loading schematic [/home/stanley82/Artwork/Controller2/Sheet03.sch] Loading schematic [/hom

Re: gEDA-user: poll: How do you geda?

2008-06-04 Thread Ian Chapman
I am curious, just how heterogeneous the group of geda users and developers is. So I thought, I'd start this little non-random sample poll in the mailing list: * What OS do you run geda applications on? Ubuntu Hardy Herron AMD64 single processor * How did you install your copy of geda apps? In

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb

2008-06-02 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks Peter, I did something silly in that I created a new directory Controller2 with all the CPLD files. I need to change part of the gsch2pcb command to reflect this ~/Artwork/Controller/Sheet01.sch Sheet01a etc to reflect controller2 oops. The added components were in the .new.pcb okay so

gEDA-user: gsch2pcb

2008-06-02 Thread Ian Chapman
I have just deleted a number of components from the schematic. After running gsch2pcb some of them (possibly all) are still on the pcb. What is the best way forward delete them from the pcb? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://

Re: gEDA-user: Routing Rat lines - ?

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Chapman
I'm new to doing a big layout about 500 traces. What I am trying is to route the short traces first on the top and bottom layers. Select a short rat then "alt r" works quite nicely. I often have to un-route to do the next trace then re-do the un-routed trace. The inner layer I am keeping for th

Re: gEDA-user: Export to Orcad?

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Chapman
Orcad layout needs a dot.mnl file and orcad capture generates a number of formats mnl bien sure plus hdl, spice etc. There is also an alegro option I think that is a universal format. Capture is very popular and I was told they use alegro to export to other layout tools. I prefer gschem to orcad

gEDA-user: Exit on undo

2008-05-08 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I flipped the board and started to rout on the reverse side, put the wrong size trace signal and hit "u" (maybe "o") to change the trace to skinny and pcb did an exit. Just reporting in case there is any interest. Regards Ian. ___ geda-us

Re: gEDA-user: PCB wth L shape

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
A technique that I am using is to make a footprint called outline.fp and add that to the schematic. This way I can use a text editor to define the board outline, the mounting holes and standard features that need to be accurate. I then check it with PCB just like any other dot.fp before starting t

Re: gEDA-user: Symbols again

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks for your help John, I will do that. Ian. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Ian Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi and thanks for the last helpful suggestion that got me over a hump. > > There are a few things that I am not clear on with symbols and > footprints.

gEDA-user: Symbols again

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi and thanks for the last helpful suggestion that got me over a hump. There are a few things that I am not clear on with symbols and footprints. Example built into the 7400.sym we have net=Vcc:14 and net-Gnd:7. Yet when I click on the symbol on the schematic I do not see this. I am only curi

Re: gEDA-user: symbols

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Chapman
at you didn't expunge? > > It's not an accidental short to ground somewhere else is it? (Of > course, the optimize rats should be whining about massive shorts if that > were true.) > > -dave > > Ian Chapman wrote: > > Hi, in gschem Add/component/power/+9V s

gEDA-user: symbols

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, in gschem Add/component/power/+9V symbol, I modified it to read +15V and used it to connect power to various circuits(copy past). In PCB I am finding that many of these pins have an orange O on them when I do optimize rats. Sometimes when I use the line tool on these pins the netlist pops up

Re: gEDA-user: Using 60Hz mains frequency for timing?

2008-05-02 Thread Ian Chapman
Crystal usually cut to + or - 100 ppm for a general use like a CPU and it will not change too much with temperature and age. Ethernet crystals were at one time cut to a better spec 50 ppm. Special communications crystal can be a lot better. The mains are very good in most places for the morning

Re: gEDA-user: PCB connections

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Chapman
I'm okay now, I set it to 0.008", thanks for all the help. I am planning to use http://www.4pcb.com/ Advanced Circuit's 4 layer, 30 sq ins, 66$ special and they use 0.006" line/space unless any one has had a bad experience with them? They were fine on a low tech two layer through hole board. Reg

Re: gEDA-user: PCB connections

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Chapman
In my # release: pcb 20080202 version I have:- DRC[2000 1000 2000 1000 1500 1000] and since they are in square brackets that works out to be 0.020" spacing and that's fine for through hole but not so good for TQFP with 0.5mm pad spacing. I'll change the PCB file to 5 or 10 mil if there is not a G

Re: gEDA-user: PCB connections

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi John, I was using skinny traces for experimenting set to 5 mils width and spacing. Other than that I am using the defaults. I'll have to read on the docs to determine how to change the DRC? On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Ian Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * T

Re: gEDA-user: PCB connections

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Chapman
* Try turning of the pads and see if there is a small amount amount of copper under the pad. * Are your traces and pads on the same side of the board? * Can you connect with with "auto enforce DRC clearance" off? Hi John, The last suggestion enabled me to connect to the pad. I guess that

gEDA-user: PCB connections

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I thought that I was able to connect my layout footprints without problems. What I am finding is that with some of the smaller smt parts that I am not able to get the trace close to the pad. I started with TQFP100_14.fp that I pulled into my footprints from the distribution. It has pads defin

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Chapman
Ian Chapman wrote: > Thanks DJ that was exactly the problem. Regards Ian. > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:46 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> It looks like you tried to edit the footprint with pcb, but saved it >> as a layout rather than as a footprint. Check your footprint fil

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Chapman
Thanks DJ that was exactly the problem. Regards Ian. On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:46 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > It looks like you tried to edit the footprint with pcb, but saved it > as a layout rather than as a footprint. Check your footprint file on > disk. > > > _

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Chapman
What I may have done is to look at the footprint using layout in the directory where PCB stores them. Then "save as" with the rest of my footprints where I keep the ones that I'm using. I must get myself up to speed with cp to re-copy the original footprint and all should be fixed. Many thanks Ia

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Chapman
Here are the top few lines from PAL.pcb. It was generated using "gsch2pcb -v -s --use-files --elements-dir ~/Artwork/Elements.fp ~/Artwork/Controller/Sheet01.sch Sheet02.sch Sheet03.sch Sheet04.sch Sheet05.sch Sheet06.sch Sheet07.sch Sheet08.sch Sheet09.sch Sheet10.sch Sheet11.sch Sheet12.sch She

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-14 Thread Ian Chapman
eball test. The error ref to the line in the dot.pcb file is throwing me off. I was reluctant to use redefs as I did not want any existing refdes to change. Is there a DRC for schematics? On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 22:09 -0400, John Luciani wrote: > on Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Ian Chapman

Re: gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Chapman
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 22:45 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 17:14 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote: > > Hi, > > using PCB version 20080202 I did a fair bit of my layout and was asked > > to make some large changes to the schematic. After updating the > >

gEDA-user: syntax error

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, using PCB version 20080202 I did a fair bit of my layout and was asked to make some large changes to the schematic. After updating the schematic "gschem version 1.2.1.20071231" I ran gsch2pcb a few times after fixing my share of typos. When at last I came to load the new.pcb file to p

Re: gEDA-user: How do I resize devices?

2008-04-02 Thread Ian Chapman
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:19 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > I still cannot figure out how to resize a component. There is no resize in gschem. This is deliberate., as it would be difficult to maintain consistent grid with resized symbols. --

Re: gEDA-user: gSoC proposals, deadline for student applications is Monday, March 31, 2008.

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi Peter, I am not to sure if your are asking for projects for students to undertake or recruiting students to undertake projects? I guess I should look up this google summer code program and find out. If it is the former, one thing I've been thinking about starting but not being

Re: gEDA-user: gtkwave

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Chapman
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 01:05 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 20:25 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote: > > I was learning ghdl and going through an exercise and I generated the > > adder.vhd file per instructiions. When I run gtkwave adder.vhd I get a > > fast fl

gEDA-user: gtkwave

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Chapman
I was learning ghdl and going through an exercise and I generated the adder.vhd file per instructiions. When I run gtkwave adder.vhd I get a fast flash of what may be an interesting screen and that's it. Did I miss something when I installed gEDA tarball? Regards Ian. In the terminal I get:- G

gEDA-user: PCB Text

2008-02-29 Thread Ian Chapman
Under info/key bindings there are a number of keys defined that make immediate action. However 't' and 'T' change the text size the next time the text tool is used. Under Select/change-size-of-selected-objects there is Text plus and minus 10-mil and these are immediate action. I think it would b

Re: gEDA-user: vove elements top to bottom

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Chapman
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 00:18 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:11:09 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > Q2, Also looking in bindings I see "T" and "shift T" TextScale + > > and - 10m. I would like to increase the size of the PCB's name.

gEDA-user: vove elements top to bottom

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I've seen this question asked quite a few times but I'm not able to locate the answer. I've looked in info/keybindings and not found it there. Q1, How do I flip a cap from the component side and put it on the solder side? Q2, Also looking in bindings I see "T" and "shift T" T

gEDA-user: tqfp

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I am using the footprint SQFP-50P-2280L1-2280L2-144N.fp for a tqfp144. I've checked a printout of the gerber against an actual device and it looks okay to me. I just need to check against the rest of the guys for any comments? Regards Ian. ___

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Element IDs

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Chapman
You might want to try a more recent PCB; this was a common problem a while back. Thanks JD, did the September 07 release fix it if not I'll get the Jan 08? In recent PCBs, there are settings to force the crosshair to ignore all text, or ignore everything except text. Is there a gui click or is

gEDA-user: PCB Element IDs

2008-02-03 Thread Ian Chapman
I'm in PCB and I'm loosing component IDs. For example U101 was there when I started layout but after positioning and moving U101 is still there without its ID. It may return in any case if I exit PCB and re-enter re-load etc all is restored. Is there something that I can do to get round this? I

gEDA-user: refdes_renum

2008-02-01 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, possibly this may be of interest. I made a minor error using refdes_renum. I missed Sheet05.sch from the list of 13 sheets I wanted renumbering. Sheet 5 somehow got renumbered as sheet 5 and sheet 6 was also renumbered as sheet 5 so I had two U501 integrated circuits. The rest of the sheets

Re: gEDA-user: Printing schematics

2008-01-31 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, almost thee. My Makefile generated all the dot.ps files like it should. I generated all the dot.pdf files one at a time using ps2pdf and they are really fine looking schematics. It failed to generate a schematic_all_pages.ps file and went off course from then on. Regards Ian. Make e

Re: gEDA-user: Printing schematics

2008-01-31 Thread Ian Chapman
Gee thanks guys. I now understand a bit about make and makefiles. I guess when I tried to install gEDA from the tarball if you remember it stopped as it could not find a directory. The gschem worked okay invoked from a terminal and I have 13 pages so that was okay. I've even got as far as impor

Re: gEDA-user: Printing schematics

2008-01-31 Thread Ian Chapman
I have a "psmerge" script that merges schematic*.ps into a single *.ps if you need it. Hi DJ, Yes please I would like to have that script. Ian. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-us

Re: gEDA-user: Printing schematics

2008-01-31 Thread Ian Chapman
___(Below this line) all: schematic1.pdf schematic2.pdf schematic3.pdf <--- (List your dependencies (in this case outputs) for "all" here) == I guess I need to have "all:sheet01.pdf sheet02.pdf etc" somewhere? I guess a

gEDA-user: Printing schematics

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Chapman
I did what JD said we should do. File/Write-image to encaplulated postscript. That worked fine and I clicked on the dot.eps file and it looks fine using Evince Document Viewer (ubuntu default I guess) but printing this to pdf I can only get a portrait view of the left half of the schematic. I've

gEDA-user: Tarball leftovers

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Chapman
Strange, I am not able to remover all the tarball stuff. I have Geda-gschem-1.2.0/src empty and libgeda-1.2.1/scr also empty. using rmdir returns "not empty" and putting them in the Ubuntu trash (that's where I first hit the snag) is not able to empty the trash. I got rid of most of it by sel

Re: gEDA-user: attributes: net and netname

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I never set net and netname to any value, I just leave them the way they are in the symbol. I do use the net attribute with off-page-connections that is with the IO out/in symbol I set net to sig-name:1 (invisible) and value to sig-name (visable). I wonder what the significance is of t

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA from all sources

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
I'll dual boot ubuntu 32-bit. Sorry if I have worn you down. Manny thanks again Ian. On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 01:48 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:54 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:36 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > > > On Jan 1

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA from all sources

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:36 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 5:21 PM, Ian Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is getting to be a real adventure. Good thing I am enjoying it > > all. > > I'm glad - mere mortals don't like fighting t

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA installation

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
Fine, I'll have a go with 1.3 Regards Ian. On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:50 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:39 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > For bash: > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gEDA/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > export PATH=/usr/local/g

gEDA-user: gEDA from all sources

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
This is getting to be a real adventure. Good thing I am enjoying it all. I added the PATH stuff like Peter suggested and ran sudo make install. It ran for ages with a screen full of asc stuff wissing by. It ended with this not finding lgeda, any ideas? gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o gnetlist i_vars.o g

gEDA-user: gEDA installation

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
For bash: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gEDA/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=/usr/local/gEDA/bin:${PATH} export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/gEDA/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH I have to do something with the above? Do I just past it into the command line one at a time and bash remembe

Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

2008-01-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:01 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:24:53 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote: > > > I have looked into glib a bit and > > http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Libraries/GLib2-2653.shtml > > has a number of different versions of

Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

2008-01-14 Thread Ian Chapman
ories /usr/local/geda/bin, and > /usr/local/geda/lib, respectively. > > Cheers, > > Stuart > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ian Chapman wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:54 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > >>> So lets g

Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

2008-01-14 Thread Ian Chapman
under apps/education but it's still dead. So I un-installed the Ubuntu gEDA, Looking at google for glib at http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Libraries/GLib2-2653.shtml is this what is needed? On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:22 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008

Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

2008-01-14 Thread Ian Chapman
nd > /usr/local/geda/lib, respectively. Again please excuse me but where and how do I do that. Do I need to edit an rc file? Sorry to be new to linux Regards Ian. > > Cheers, > > Stuart > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ian Chapman wrote: > > > &

Re: gEDA-user: geda tarball

2008-01-14 Thread Ian Chapman
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:27 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 04:01:46 Ian Chapman wrote: > > I am in the process of updating my gschem tools to 1.2.0 > > stable. ./configure reported guile not found so I got guile 1.6 from > > the ubuntu package m

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