Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-08 20:39:41 skrev John Doty : On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2011-01-08 16:33:06 skrev John Doty : On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way I can design it making it

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-08 16:33:06 skrev John Doty : On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way I can design it making it automatically understand where it belongs, so I don't need to manually enter all those ”U1, U

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-07 14:58:59 skrev Martin Kupec : On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:06:12PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: So, if I decide to use a 74-power symbol after all, is there any way I can design it making it automatically understand where it belongs, so I don't need to manually ente

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-07 01:31:28 skrev Kai-Martin Knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: First I manually set the ”device=” to match existing components, No need. The device attribute is not used by anything in the gschem to pcb work flow. then I added ”numslots=” to match. This is not useful. The

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question - suggestions?

2011-01-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
question - suggestions? On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I > > really recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but one for 14, > > and one for > > 16 pins devices. I think I call

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-05 17:22:39 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I really > recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but one for 14, and one for > 16 pins devices. I think

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-05 16:17:57 skrev Karl Hammar : Johnny Rosenberg: Maybe this is in the wiki somewhere and I just missed it, but what are the possible text strings for pintype? Since it is just a text field there is "no" limitation for what you could type in there. So far I'

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-04 21:47:59 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 21:14 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: comment=Use 74_pwr.sym for supply I wrote it some months ago... A single 74_pwr.sym can not work for 14 and 16 pin parts, so I really recommend to do not use a 74_pwr.sym at all, but

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
e possible text strings for pintype? So far I've seen in, out, oc, pas. Are there more? Do the gEDA software use them for something or is it just for the user? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: "Johnny Rosenberg" w

gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
teral switches T 200 3600 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 documentation=http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74lv4066a.pdf T 200 3000 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 author=Johnny Rosenberg – johnny.a.rosenb...@gmail.com T 200 2800 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 dist-license=GPL T 200 2600 5 8 0 0 0 0 1 use-license=Unlimited T 200 900 8 10 1 1 0 0 1

Re: gEDA-user: Voltage symbols and Spice

2011-01-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
which is what you measure apparent power in? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-02 20:51:04 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Because the footprint information can be scanned at a glance in the schematic. The footprint needs attention just like the value or the refdes. So it is convenient to have it visible by default. If I don't want t

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-02 13:13:55 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I didn't add or modify any invisible text except those very unnecessary (?) author- and license lines. I guess I should remove them entirely. License lines are a necessity for sharing. Else, you'd have t

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 18:42:49 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: here's a new try, which I tested several times: http://ubuntuone.com/p/W8l/ I just looked at 7400-IEC-1.sym. Some comments: * some lines of invisible text is not on 100 grid. I took a look myself and you

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 12:55:41 skrev Florian E. Teply : On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:01:36 +0100 "Johnny Rosenberg" wrote: Den 2011-01-01 03:06:21 skrev kai-martin knaak : > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > >> uploaded them here (temporarily): >> http://ubuntuone.com/p/W5T/ >

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2011-01-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2011-01-01 03:06:21 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: uploaded them here (temporarily): http://ubuntuone.com/p/W5T/ I just receive this message: Could not locate object ---<)kaimartin(>--- Something went wrong yesterday, I don't know exactly what, b

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 22:11:09 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: Den 2010-12-31 16:31:42 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: No. That's the wrong conclusion. Well, we'll see what will happen. I am still not 100% sure how

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
them and look for things that are not quite right, I uploaded them here (temporarily): http://ubuntuone.com/p/W5T/ It's a compressed tarball called ”74-IEC.tar.bz2”, containing the 12 symbols. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ ge

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 16:31:42 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: No. That's the wrong conclusion. Well, we'll see what will happen. I am still not 100% sure how to create symbols in the first place, so I guess things will move very slowly to begin wit

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
parts. John -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 15:03:13 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: Well, I guess that I need to make my own symbols then, Yes. Will that be generic, light logic symbols, or 74xx series symbols? I don't know, maybe 74xx series, but I don't think I will jus

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 13:20:07 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: Den 2010-12-31 02:58:36 skrev Stephan Boettcher : kai-martin knaak writes: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: __ | | | & |o––– |__| Ah, those box shaped symbols.

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 02:58:36 skrev Stephan Boettcher : kai-martin knaak writes: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: __ | | | & |o––– |__| Ah, those box shaped symbols. Well, I don't like them. So none of them in my lib... Those were invented by bureauc

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-31 01:37:50 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 01:06 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > I looked at the gEDA symbols site, but it was very hard to find > anything useful in this matter, since there was no ”preview” thing > involved as far

gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
make them all by myself? I can't be the only European user of this program, can I…? Regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/12/29 Levente Kovacs : > On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:01:43 +0100 > "Johnny Rosenberg" > wrote: > >> Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… > > We are very good at making wars. We make wars on "what kind of fileformat to > use

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-25 22:12:40 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… Please don't. Well, I guess it's not regrettable anyway; the question is already asked and I think I also got a cou

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
;. But nobody's done that. Changing the default library piecemeal won't solve the problem, and will break things. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com Hm… I start to regret that I asked the question in the first place… -- Kind regards John

Re: gEDA-user: Creating new symbols

2010-12-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 22:16:18 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: At http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial the following is written: ”When all the edits are done, it's very important when editing symbols to do a Edit→Symbol Translate to zero be

gEDA-user: Creating new symbols

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
re is no ”Save Page” in the File menu. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 13:37:34 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 12:43 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Now I'd like to save my ”new” symbol somewhere. There is not really a reason to save it, because you have only moved the text around and modified the alignment mark. OK, added a

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 13:20:39 skrev Peter Clifton : On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 12:22 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I tried that now,since you suggested it. Unfortunately it doesn't work like I expected: Left seems to mean right, right seems to mean left, upper seems to mean lower and lower see

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 12:34:27 skrev timecop : footprint = what the pads/holes/silk/wahtever on pcb for this component look like. Aah… that makes sense. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-12-24 02:27:33 skrev kai-martin knaak : You may take a look at the

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 12:32:36 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: type e x, or (Edit->Edit Text) select Middle-Middle alignment move the alignment mark to the center of the resistor. I tried that now,since you suggested it. Unfortunately it doesn't work like I expect

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
t” mean in this situation? I know the word, just not what it means in this case… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 01:10:55 skrev Stephan Boettcher : "Johnny Rosenberg" writes: Yet another newbie question then: I tried to enter a value of a resistor (/usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-2.sym, my operating system is Ubuntu 10.10) but the position of the value needs to be adju

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 11:30:52 skrev Peter TB Brett : On Friday 24 December 2010 10:27:20 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-12-24 00:53:38 skrev Stefan Salewski : > On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:38 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: &

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
fer writing LaTeX to writing wiki syntax. Also, diagrams are so much nicer (thank you TikZ!) Peter So you are the ”1% of people who even wanted to help with writing any kinda documentation”? Sorry, I didn't know that. -- Kind regards Johnny R

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
written in LaTeX? Exactly why is it important with what it is written? Sending patches for TeX-files or chapters is a very simple process and a pdf-book can be downloaded as a whole and read offline, printed. That's what we try to do now for "Varkon Programmers Handbook". -- Kind

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:53:38 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:38 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > Value: → Enter ”390k”. > > Does it look nice? It certainly does not on my system. > > Am I doing this right

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:38:35 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Value: → Enter ”390k”. Does it look nice? It certainly does not on my system. Am I doing this right at all? May it be related to your OHM sign? I never use it, and I do not see it

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-24 00:08:41 skrev Stefan Salewski : On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:00 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Yet another newbie question then: I tried to enter a value of a resistor You can change the alignment mark of text, select the text, and select "Edit/Edit Text" from menu. In

gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
looks like this: –39[0kΩ ]––– The value needs to be centred, rather than aligned to the left. I also looked a bit into the /usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/resistor-2.sym file, but I'm too much of a newbie to make any relevant changes to such files that actually work… -- Kind regards J

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
That works perfectly for me! I thought I tried that before, but obviously I didn't do it properly (I experimented with Shift, Ctrl and Alt, but maybe I was just too fast or something…). -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailin

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-22 20:55:18 skrev kai-martin knaak : Johnny Rosenberg wrote: things like ”DRAWN BY”, ”TITLE”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill that in by using the Text tool or is there a more proper way to do it? Yes, this is the proper way with the default title block. I too think

Re: gEDA-user: How to change the default folder for my drawings?

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
he current directory inside the terminal. I use the Programs menu (Gnome, Ubuntu 10.10) and there is no such option there, unfortunately. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-b

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-22 20:47:41 skrev DJ Delorie : The small circle is the snap-to-pin feature. You can disable it (I leave it on) via Options->Toggle Magnetic Net Okay, thanks. :) -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list g

gEDA-user: How to change the default folder for my drawings?

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
It seems like the default folder is ${HOME} by default, how can I change that? I couldn't find anything like ”settings” or ”preferences” in the menues. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-12-22 20:29:39 skrev Peter TB Brett : On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:17:14 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I open a new page, a ”title block” is all I see, and there I can read things like ”DRAWN BY”, ”TITLE”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill that in by using the Text

Re: gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
n the surface and start from there, I can draw the line in two steps… But I have to click somewhere where a small circle does not show up, otherwise it will snap to that small circle… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda

gEDA-user: Drawing lines (schematic editor)

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
x27;t look very good in my opinion… How do I prevent this from happen? Sorry for not so good English… -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
TITLE”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill that in by using the Text tool or is there a more proper way to do it? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user