Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Phillip Jones
> IMHO and AFAICT STEP is a "closed" standard, that is, one will have to > (probably ?) buy a copy of the standard and then violate the copyright > notice prohibiting to disclose (reproduce ?) its contents into some sort of > a library (libSTEP ?), which then could be published under LGPL and used

Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems

2010-10-17 Thread Phillip Jones
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:11 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> I've recently started using PCB and found the tutorial difficult to >> follow and inaccurate at several steps. > > Which one?  I've written a new one here: > http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/ > Thanks for the link, I will look through that

Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems

2010-10-17 Thread Phillip Jones
>> - Write a new tutorial. With a few pictures like before, >> and without any asking for editing text files. > > You've got a point here. It's been quite some time since I did the > tutorial myself. But I still remember that the first part of it was a > bit confusing and tedious. I think you are r

Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems [was: pcb crooked traces]

2010-10-17 Thread Phillip Jones
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> Am 17.10.2010 um 17:16 schrieb Levente Kovacs: >> >> >I think that is why X11 has its coordinate system as is; and that >> >is why PCB developers went that way. But a CAD

Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems [was: pcb crooked traces]

2010-10-17 Thread Phillip Jones
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 11:54 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > >> >> The reason for it is that this is generally how drawing canvases work, >> so from a programmer's perspective, it is simpler to have y pointing down. >> > > WHY? > Mainly bec