On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:20:03 +0100
kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
It about finding authors.
I'm not entirely sure about that. I think there would be persons that
would be prepared to produce documents, if there were no necessity to
wade through the source code to detect what has
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:43:34 +0100
Armin Faltl armin.fa...@aon.at wrote:
I know that a wiki book may have some advantages in the collaboration
of making. But why not a real book, that is written in LaTeX?
When thinking bout documentation, please do take into account the effort
being done by
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:09:45 +0100
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote:
If footprints are extended to allow text elements to be included, then
I really hope that general polygons will be allowed too.
plus arcs, two layers of silk, lines in copper, vias, mid layers, ...
In
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:12:22 +0100
kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
A less ambitious way to achieve text in footprints would dissolve
letters into lines and add them to the footprint like you would
with ordinary lines. In silk they stay straight forward lines. In
copper they'd
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:07:58 -0800
Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote:
Unfortunately this may not work well for footprints since I have found
the best results from pstoedit to be achieved using the pcbfill
output driver, which uses only polygons to render text, and PCB does
not support
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:23:29 -0300
John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote:
Probably someone is needed to code complex polygon rotations...
Sorry - that may not have come out as intended... This wasn't meant as
criticism...
John
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Hello all.
I seem to remember I read about this a time ago, but me and google can't
seem to find any reference:
I'd like to put text into PCB elements (in this case to label pins of a
connector on the silk screen), but that doesn't seem possible... Each
time I try to add text to an element, it
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:29:04 +
Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
Here is the gotcha.. the VBO code didn't really work on the NVidia
machine.. rendering got really slow. If you discover this, you can force
it back to using Arrays rather than VBOs with this patch:
Peter,
Maybe, just by
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:10:39 -0400
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
I'm guessing they're around 0.5 to 1.0 meter, based on the size of the
drill machines...
A couple of days ago, checked Eurocircuits (.com). They have a max of
425 x 425 mm (410 x 410 in tech pool).
John
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:53:43 -0500
John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote:
Or shop for a second hand UV tanning lamp?
Another solution might be looking at the circuits that excite the tubes
with high frequency. With a simple oscillator, you can use the tubes
without the filament, and if they
Hello people.
Once in a while, I have the urge to save a page which seems too useful to
download it every time I need it. I tried to do that with a couple of the
gEDA wiki pages, and found that its format doesn't really allow to do that
(something I didn't notice on other sites - at least it
Hi all.
It's nothing really. I just installed the latest stable PCB, recompiled
'cause I switched to 64 bit, and noticed the printer calibration option.
Tried it, and found that in the first step (selecting the printer), the
cancel button seems to have the same effect as the Ok button (at least,
On Mon, 25 May 2009 19:55:23 +0200
Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de wrote:
- How can I make the breadboard drawing appear light-grey in pcb's
postscript output?
A trick I've used is to export or print the board to postscript. Then
you'll have many pages, one of them the vias alone, and on
On Mon, 25 May 2009 22:58:26 +0200
Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de wrote:
I'd prefer something more scriptable, since I expect to have _lots_ of
circuits. But at a first glance, it looks like the ps/eps outputs are
easy to postprocess.
If you want publishing (printing) quality output, you'll
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:39:42 +0200
Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de wrote:
More testing reveals that, even on an empty 'New' page, a vertical pin
crashes gechem! (not a horizontal one)
I did some tests yesterday but was not able to see problems -- I use
1.4.3 on Gentoo-AMD64. But
Hello all.
I was trying to define a new symbol for one of these U-type
optocouplers (TCST2302). Near the end, when adding the first pin, gschem
disappeared. Redoing everything repeated the problem...
More testing reveals that, even on an empty 'New' page, a vertical pin
crashes gechem! (not a
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:44:12 +0100
Oliver Lehmann lehm...@ans-netz.de wrote:
No OpenGL support for many ATI cards on FreeBSD because no native
drivers and the open source ones are mostly lacking support. No idea
how good the binary nvidia driver works...
I have a GeFORCE (was that the right
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:37:24 + (UTC)
Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few days ago I started an omnibus order of common 0805 components in
de.sci.electronics (see thread Sammelbestellung R und C in SMD-0805).
Hello Kai-Martin...
I'm not sure my mail is disappearing, but after
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:04:52 +0200
Johannes Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Coppens schrieb:
1. How can I highlight a complete net in gschem? I have mostly stuff
like http://bildrian.de/n/b/c3c0ce767ca5d198.png this - when I want
to find out where exactly PA2 goes, I have
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:37:51 +0200
Johannes Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
I'm a total gEDA newbie and am pretty amazed about what is possible
already. Still, I'm currently having some problems which probably are
extremely easy to solve for some of you - most of them are only
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:55:26 + (UTC)
Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* What OS do you run geda applications on?
Linux (Slackware)
* How did you install your copy of geda apps?
Source compile
* Which apps do you use. What is your typical workflow?
gschem/spice/PCB
* Did
Hello all,
I have a component, and wanted to add a warning text to the silkscreen
layer. I broke the component down, added the text and copied everything
to the buffer. All well till now. I can even past it back to the board.
But when I press 'Convert buffer into element', the text disappears.
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:30:58 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Elements don't have a way of storing additional silkscreen text,
sorry.
Thanks for the fast reply, DJ. I have a footprint for RJ45, but it can
be used for connector with top or bottom contacts. I wanted to make two
Hi all.
Though this evidently is not a software defect, I'm wondering if someone
on the list knows the cause of this problem or experienced similar
effects.
I was testing another paper (touted by a local electronics magazine as
'ideal') for my quick-and-dirty toner-transfer PCBs, and found a
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:46:41 -0700
Samuel A. Falvo II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Permission denied (403) errors when attempting to view the pictures.
Strange, just tested them (again), and they show fine.
John
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:46:30 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's very bizzare. It's the kind of thing I'd ask about on the
Homebrew_PCBs yahoo group. I've seen all sorts of defects using TT,
but nothing systematic like that.
Ok... Didn't know about that group. Thanks for the
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:09:30 -0400
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking there might be a liquid
buildup there that would spatter away as the heat was applied to this
much less porous medium, particularly if the heating effect at that
point was coming in at an angle.
Neither
Hello all.
Just installed the latest release of PCB, 20080202, and find that 'copy
selection to buffer' disappeared. Can't find a reference to that in the
CHANGES file, so I'm suspecting I did something wrong.
(I'm using the GTK GUI)
John
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:00:58 -0500
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not in the Edit menu, with all the other cut/copy/paste options?
Yeah, it is... But it isn't in the Buffer menu anymore, where I used to
find it ;-) In fact, I can't remember I _ever_ used the ones in the Edit
menu.
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:12:08 -0800 (PST)
Michael Stovenour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else having trouble reaching http://www.gedasymbols.org/? I was
just on it this morning, but now it appears unreachable.
Yep - won't work here either.
John
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:34:38 -0500
Randall Nortman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The users will never take them up on it. Instead of using
uClibc, they will just write their own code from scratch or purchase
proprietary libraries.
It's not the users that have to have access to the code. After
Hello all.
I don't want to sound unappreciative of all the work put into gEDA a
particularly in PCB, I do appreciate it.
Only, I wonder if someone uses the latest PCB (20070912) and it works for
him/her? There are a lot of issues with cursor movements etc, which make
it basically unusable. I've
Hi...
I just played around with background images in PCB, which works fine. It
took some work, because of documentation problems.
DJ: I'd suggest adding a comment on you 'background image' page,
telling that it is possible to change the board size _after_ starting pcb
--bg-image xxx The image
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:21:30 -0400
Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I call the command window with ':', it appears without the text
entry field (Dropdown and Close buttons are there). When I press the
dropdown button, _crash_ - pcb disappears!
John
wierd. I'm not able to
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:36:05 +0200
Stefan Salewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I have a pcb main-window smaller than the screen size and move the
mouse pointer (activated select tool) out of the window, in some cases
the inner of the window (footprints, autorouted traces, ...) is moved
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:47:12 -0300
John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, this moving (jumping around) happens quite a lot, as far as I
can see only when not maximized:
Just found another one (also maximized):
If you use the select window to select an area, autopan occurs when
pushing
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:25:20 -0400
Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just uploaded a new pcb snapshot to the sourceforge download area.
My goal is to make the next one in closer to 3 months from now instead
of having a 7 month gap like this last time.
Wow... A big one.
When I call the
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:38:57 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you cheap out on the inductor?
Not that I'm aware of. I used these:
By far the most probable cause is the inductor. I've made quite a few
switchers, and several of them caused problems. I'm not so preoccupied
with
Hi all...
I use PCB irregularly, mostly with all the defaults in place. Today, I
was drawing a board where I wanted to add a text on the solder side. I've
done that a lot of times, each time with the text mirrored, and never
bothered to check why.
Today the threshold was reached and I searched
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:23:56 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing on the bottom of the board is a couple of bypass caps
(most are on the top) and some of the ethernet bias circuitry.
The ethernet uses a galvanic isolation power supply? One of those XXv to
9v DC converters?
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:09:58 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not getting into my site wasn't *your* bad luck!
Yes... Of course I should've chosen my words a bit more carefully.
My apologies!
John
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:27:29 +0200
Stefan Dröge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no problem at accessing the site.
Stefan
Thanks Stefan.
I accessed the site through an anonymizer and had no problem. Probably
some countries are blocked at that server.
John
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:12:51 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the site down? I can't seem to connect...
Major storm hit NH, taking out power, phones, internet, roads, a few
houses, and at least one truck. We're OK though, but at the peak
there were close to 200,000 people
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:50:27 -0400
Darryl Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the site down? I can't seem to connect...
I'm getting unable to connect errors too.
Hmmm... I have the impression that DJ disappeared simultaneously!
John
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:36:32 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/dremel-stand/
Hi DJ.
Is the site down? I can't seem to connect...
John
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On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:03:08 -0700
william estrada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have made my first drawing using gEDA. I have some questions about
using gEDA. In the drawing I used an 'arc' to jump over one of the
'traces'. Is the a better way to show that lines are not connected?
By
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:18:02 -0400
Felipe Balbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I create gEDA symbols for unsupported parts ??
Hi Felipe.
If you mean symbols for gschem, check this:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gschem
If you mean footprints for PCB:
http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:31:06 +0100
Philipp Klaus Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
static has two meanings: The one you mentioned for variables declared
inside a function, the one Ben Jackson mentioned for variables declared
outside a function.
Isn't internet great? Collaborative learning!
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:23:22 + (GMT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look at the following:1) int bob[5] = {0x1, 0x2];2) int const bob[2] =
{0x1, 0x2};3) static int const bob[2] = {0x1, 0x2};1 creates an
initialized array in ram.2 creates a read-only array - presumably in
ROMWhat does 3 do? I
Hello all.
Changed machines rather unexpectedly, and the move didn't go well :-(
1) I could still run gschem Co, but I found that selecting a couple of
components and hitting er (rotate) twice made it crash.
2) Before complaining, I thought I'd install the last version first, and
I thought I'd
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:03:57 -0600
John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Carr wrote:
Quick question:
I have a board with 344 vias that I'd like to increase in size from
20 mils to 24 mils.
Select them and any other non-via objects, but not the other size vias
somehow.
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:13:37 -0400
John Luciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since the DVI file is generated can you view it with xdvi? If you can
I would think
that the problem may be with fontmapping.
Sri... Hadn't noticed that the make script seems to remove the output
(dvi)? As far as I can
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:35:32 -0400
al davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why don't you try gnucap? At least if it does have a problem I
Al,
Several items:
1) On the GNU site, the latest distro is 0.31 and no indication that newer
versions exist. I can't compile this version...
2) Only later I
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:54:43 -0400
Dan McMahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that on John's computer, something is messed up in the
latex installation so dvipdfm fails to find cmr17.tfm.
Ok... I have
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1292 1995-08-14 15:29
Hi all.
1) I cannot get the 'spice-model' element to work... It just doesn't
get included when calling gnetlist (no complaints either). I wanted to
include a simple model for a switch.
Also, the gEDA/SPICE tutorial mentions 'model' and 'type' attributes
which are not available on the
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John --
2) Another version of the circuit causes:
Found unknown component. Refdes = L1
L1 is an inductor, shown correctly on the schematic, and included in
the generated netlist as:
L1 vlin
Hi all.
I was (trying to) simulate a switching power supply, and used the
'schottky' diode symbols, copied it, and added a model (1N5822 from
Motorola). After some experiments with strange results, could it be that
the diode pins are reversed? It did conduct the wrong way...
The normal 'diode'
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:05:23 -0400 (EDT)
Stuart Brorson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best way to know is to inspect the SPICE netlist. There is no
guarantee that the parts in the gEDA symbol library have the pins set
up in the correct orientation.
That's why I reported it on the list -
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:34:20 -0400
DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even just a little 555-based LED blinker or something would count
as functional in this case, I think.
0603 cap = 1 cent
0603 led = 7 cents
Even the venerable 555 is too expensive in the small sizes appropriate
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