gEDA-user: Thermal pad (heatsink)?

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Lai
Hello, How do I add thermal pad (heatsink, NOT thermal relief pad!) in PCB? Rectangles/polygons don't clear solder mask. Thanks! Matthew ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Thermal pad (heatsink)?

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Lai
Thanks. I was hoping there would be an easier way... Matthew John Luciani wrote: On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Matthew Lai cyberf...@wecheer.com wrote: Hello, How do I add thermal pad (heatsink, NOT thermal relief pad!) in PCB? Rectangles/polygons don't clear solder mask. Make

Re: gEDA-user: Thermal pad (heatsink)?

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Lai
Thanks! That worked. I'm assuming if I want to connect it to some net, I'll have to make a proper footprint (of the original part + thermal pad). Otherwise it keeps telling me there is a shorted net. Thanks kai-martin knaak wrote: kai-martin knaak wrote: 1) Draw a rectangle. (F5)

gEDA-user: Diode pin numbers reversed?

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Lai
Am I having a brain fart or does the stock diode-1 symbol have opposite pin numbers as the ALF300 footprint? What would be the best way to go about fixing that? Thanks ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Buses and gnetlist/pcb?

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Lai
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. I think I will do that, too. By the way, what does the ':' character mean then? The short tutorial used it (though only :1) and I naively assumed that's how people usually create buses. Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:05:43 -0700 Matthew

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-11 Thread Matthew Lai
wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:24 -0700, Matthew Lai wrote: Fixed. Sort of. This is very strange. My files were on a SMB share (on another Linux box). Copied it to /tmp, didn't change anything, and both the test case and my original board worked. No idea

gEDA-user: Buses and gnetlist/pcb?

2010-06-11 Thread Matthew Lai
I know that gnetlist and pcb don't care about buses, but how do people usually name related nets? I used A:1 A:2 etc, but apparently they will all get merged into one. Thanks ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
Hi, I've posted this on the bugs list, but I'm not sure if people here also subscribe to that, so I'll repost it here in case someone has seen / know how to fix this. Basically, I have a .sch with nothing other than 41 identical capacitors (footprint doesn't matter, I've tried RADIAL CAN

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
the pcb files every time. My testing command was rm -f board* gsch2pcb project pcb board.pcb. I'll post the corrupted file later when I get home. Thanks Matthew kai-martin knaak wrote: Matthew Lai wrote: Basically, I have a .sch with nothing other than 41 identical capacitors

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
capacitors or something? Just copy and paste, and refdes_renum --force. 41 was the magic number for me (minimum to make it produce the error). Maybe it's different for you? Thanks Matthew Stefan Salewski wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:40 -0700, Matthew Lai wrote: That is interesting

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
Salewski wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 17:22 -0700, Matthew Lai wrote: Yeap, the 41 capacitors thing is my reduced test case that still shows this problem. Should be some kind of overflow, My only idea: In my DAD/DSO project with about 1000 symbols/elements I have ste...@amd64x2 ~ $ cat

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
Unfortunately, (debug-options (list 'stack 20)) wasn't it. Attached is my board.pcb output. PCB says ERROR parsing file 'board.pcb' line:698 description: 'syntax error' File is clearly corrupted near that line (note that the last incomplete capacitor is also C2, when it

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb (gnetlist) generates corrupted pcb output

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Lai
. Matthew Lai wrote: Unfortunately, (debug-options (list 'stack 20)) wasn't it. Attached is my board.pcb output. PCB says ERROR parsing file 'board.pcb' line:698 description: 'syntax error' File is clearly corrupted near that line (note that the last incomplete capacitor is also C2