Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Problems creating a ground plane and adding thermals

2009-02-17 Thread Susan Mackay
Did you check the wiki? Although the pcb section is called tips it is more like FAQ. For your particular question: [1]http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips#why_is_it_possible_to_make_ a_thermal_for_pin_but_not_for_a_pad using the ground plane as the GND netlist?

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Problems creating a ground plane and adding thermals

2009-02-16 Thread Susan Mackay
Hardkrash, Thanks for that - Is this documented anywhere (because I missed it if it is and I obviously need to go back and read the section again!). Also, any comments (from anyone) about the second part of my question: using the ground plane as the GND netlist? Susan

Re: gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

2009-01-11 Thread Susan Mackay
OK, this is getting WAY off topic, but: Ok, I'll bite... now you've got me curious about what you're working on... ;-) 73 - Bdale, KB0G It's a little bit of everything really. It started off with me wanting to play with one of the PIC processors (18F4550) to do something useful but

Re: gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

2009-01-11 Thread Susan Mackay
OK, this is getting WAY off topic, but: Ok, I'll bite... now you've got me curious about what you're working on... ;-) 73 - Bdale, KB0G It's a little bit of everything really. It started off with me wanting to play with one of the PIC processors (18F4550) to do something useful but

Re: gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

2009-01-10 Thread Susan Mackay
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this. From several of the comments, I realise that I didn't say that I would not be using a commercial fabrication shop for this as the board is quite small, I'm still in the prototyping stage, I using this to learn about PCB et al, and the local

gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

2009-01-08 Thread Susan Mackay
I'm new to PCB and I'm trying to create my first board after following the tutorials. What I want is a single copper layer (the component side as everything is SMD) so I have removed all layers except 'component', 'silk' and 'rat lines'. I have imported my devices from the gschem file (via