I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved
my work every 5 minutes.
I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a
change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist.
I opened myfile.pcb with PCB. My custom elements are missing.
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:39 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
I spent the morning making 4 new elements. PCB worked great. I saved
my work every 5 minutes.
I closed PCB. I regenerated the netlist from the schematic due to a
change. I used gsch2pcb myfile.sch to regenerate the netlist.
I
Great answers, guys. Thanks !
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:31 -0400, KURT PETERS wrote:
Be careful about what symbol you choose for your diode in gschem.
I've
found pin 1 and pin 2 don't always connect to cathode/anode like one
would
think they would. In other words, the multiple diode symbols are not
consistent.
You
I've got some big fat power traces on my PCB. Is there an easy way to
identify some traces as different sizes from the rest when autorouting ?
Like is there a size attribute for each ratnest item ?
Is there an easy way to change the trace width after it is auto routed ?
Thanks.
gschem and PCB
These traces are even worse than regular power/ground traces. They are
carrying big power pulses, up to 20A for motor control. Any more advice
would be greatly appreciated. Some of these traces got routed with
vias ! How do I fix this all up ?
I had a couple schematic devices that didn't have a proper footprint.
They needed a 5mm spaced pin header. I didn't have time to write a
custom footprint in perl, so I used a single inline 0.100 header
instead. Now I would like to explode that element and move the pins
so that they are 5mm
Half my traces are big power and the other half are signal. I'd like
PCB to take a first crack at routing the fat traces. Is there an easy
way to do that ? It is going to take forever to hand draw the fat
traces.
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On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 00:20 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:29:44 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
Now I would like to explode that element and move the pins
so that they are 5mm apart. Is there an easy way to do this ?
Is it possible at all ?
Yes.
This is my
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 00:20 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Yes.
snip
Excellent post, Kai. Thanks !
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 22:31 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
Did you name the element itself? It will have lost its refdes in that
process.
How does one rename the element ?
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 22:33 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
How does one rename the element ?
'n' over the element (but not over a pin)
Worked great. Thanks for the timely help !
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Is there a HOWTO somewhere for making new PCB footprints ?
Thanks
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On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:09 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 8/23/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a HOWTO somewhere for making new PCB footprints ?
Thanks
I have some Perl examples at ---
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-perl-library.html
Thanks
I lock my title blocks to make sure that I don't accidentally select
them while workint with components. How does one unlock a locked title
block ?
Thanks.
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How does one restore the drill sizes on a footprint after one has
applied the vendor drill map ?
How does one change the drill size on a pre defined footprint ?
I want to shrink the drill width on the TO220STAND footprint devices.
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rpack1 has exactly what I need ! *shesh !
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:19 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
I have a design that uses 8 identical resistors. On the prototype,
which I created using gschem and pcb, of course, they were individual
devices. I've been requested to change them to a DIP
I have a design that uses 8 identical resistors. On the prototype,
which I created using gschem and pcb, of course, they were individual
devices. I've been requested to change them to a DIP networked resistor
such as this one:
http://www.bourns.com/PDFs/4100R.pdf
The reason for using these
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:22 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
I created a vendor resource file with the appropriate drill sizes in
it. I used the file format in the pcb help html page. I commented out
the skips and the DRC stuff from the example.
I load the file from the command in the File menu
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:22 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
I created a vendor resource file with the appropriate drill sizes in
it. I used the file format in the pcb help html page. I commented out
the skips and the DRC stuff from the example.
I load the file from the command in the File menu
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:14 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
Your message with the vendor file appeared ~45 minutes ago.
Oops... sorry, I didn't see it here, for some reason.
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I am trying to load a vendor drillmap file. I cut and pasted the file
from the pcb.html pages. When I load the file, the following appears in
the pcb.log window.
No drillmap resource found.
Loaded 0 vendroo drills from path to resource file
The skips and DRC appear to be working though.
Has
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:38 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
I am trying to load a vendor drillmap file. I cut and pasted the file
from the pcb.html pages. When I load the file, the following appears in
the pcb.log window.
No drillmap resource found.
Could someone share a drill map file
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:10 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
I'll beg to disagree re: ease of building. Sure, there are some packages
you need to install first, but it should be no harder than most modern
distros.
./configure
...
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:36 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
Do you have the gtk+-2.0 -devel packages installed?
Even though this applies to gEDA/gaf and Debian Lenny, please read:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:debian
I got pcb-20070726 built for ubuntu thanks to this tip. The drillmap
loaded
It would be really nice if one could do a copy to clipboard from the
text in the pcb.log window. It would help those of us that want to
post detailed information in an email to this group, for example.
Thanks for listening.
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On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:34 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
The first I can understand because it would take 2 vias to make it
work. Its not trivial.
The second I don't understand. It looks trival and yet the line
stays as a rat instead of routing. Any ideas ? Nothing appears in
the
I've got a two rats that don't auto route.
The first I can understand because it would take 2 vias to make it work.
Its not trivial.
The second I don't understand. It looks trival and yet the line stays
as a rat instead of routing. Any ideas ? Nothing appears in the
pcb.log window.
I've
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:10 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
.pcb file ?
You want me to post it ?
We can't debug it if we can't reproduce it.
Here is the pcb file... the layout is all messed up at the moment, but
you'll see what I mean.
PCB[ 60 50]
Grid[3937.007813 0 0 1]
Cursor[0
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:49 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
You're right, that one remaining rat is easily routable by hand, I
don't know why the autorouter wouldn't have routed it.
I'm happy I posted my files then. Use them as a test case. I was
surprised at how well the autorouter worked on
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:06 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 7/27/07, John Luciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/27/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:10 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
I noticed that the trace from C1-2 hits Q2-1. Did you route
with enforce DRC off
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:51 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 7/27/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:10 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
I noticed that the netlist has C2-N and C2-P and the
PCB footprint for C2 has pins 1 and 2.
Yes, I hand routed those. I think I
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:38 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
Maybe I should shut up and contribute ?
It wouldn't hurt ;-)
Let me route a few more boards so that I'm not a total noob. I like
open source efforts. I don't mind helping.
It would be really nice if someone built me a great tool with which
I created a vendor resource file with the appropriate drill sizes in
it. I used the file format in the pcb help html page. I commented out
the skips and the DRC stuff from the example.
I load the file from the command in the File menu. I believe I enabled
the use of the file with the command
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:58 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 7/27/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:38 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
Maybe I should shut up and contribute ?
It wouldn't hurt ;-)
Let me route a few more boards so that I'm not a total noob. I
I am trying to manually connect a line to some manually placed pads.
Everything works ok except that when I go to complete the connection to
the pad, the line won't go near the pad. It appears that the software
is trying to prevent the line from touching the existing pad.
How do I override the
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:05 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
This normally means that (1) auto-DRC is on, and (2) the rats nest is
stale. Try o to optimize the rats nest, else disable auto-drc.
Also, you may need to start on the pad if you're trying to connect it
to a yet-unconnected copper region.
My schematic and PCB are done. I'd like to thank everyone here for
contributing to the software and for answering my newbie questions
promptly and with good answers. Its greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:08 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:00 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:48 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
Are you sure you don't just need to put the header on the other side
of the board?
Moving the connector to the other side
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:02 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote:
The auto DRC lets you connect to found objects. When auto DRC is on
and you start a line, you'll see everything you can connect to light
up green. You can never connect floating elements (eg a via with no
thermals) to a net because the
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:48 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
Are you sure you don't just need to put the header on the other side
of the board?
I didn't realize you could do that. The header needs the mirrored pin
outs because the socket it mates to is on the wrong side of a daughter
board. However,
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:48 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
The various tags that I use are documented in
http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/footprint-name-spec.pdf
Thank you !
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I've got a connector that is connected properly, etc, but needs to be
mirrored left/right. How do I do this and keep the connects, etc, in
tact. The real problem is that the pinout in the footprint should
probably be mirrored.
Thanks.
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On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:08 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 7/25/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a connector that is connected properly, etc, but needs to be
mirrored left/right. How do I do this and keep the connects, etc, in
tact. The real problem is that the pinout
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:08 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
On 7/25/07, armdeveloper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Create a correct footprint with a different name
2. Delete the incorrect footprint from the PCB
3. Update your schematic with the new footprint name
4. Run gsch2pcb
5. Place the new
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:26 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
The pin numbers in mosfet-with-diode-1.sym are D, G, S and the footprint
probably has pin numbers 1, 2, 3. The easiest thing to do would be to
change the
pin numbers in the symbol file.
This worked. Thanks.
I am using a Panasonic ECO-S1HP223EA capacitor in a design. (TS series,
22000uF, 50V, 35mm, 2 prongs, Digikey part number P6946-ND.)
I see capacitor footprint names like
CAPPR-1000P-3000D-2500L-200d__Panasonic_UP-TS_Series in the 3rd party
footprint libraries. What is the significance of the
I'm looking for a footprint for a 20A bridge rectifier.
http://www.diodes.com/datasheets/ds21220.pdf
Where would I find it or if I have to make one, what would I use for a
template ? Or should I just draw it in PCB ?
Thanks
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On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:08 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
I'm looking for a footprint for a 20A bridge rectifier.
http://www.diodes.com/datasheets/ds21220.pdf
Just draw it in pcb. Set up a metric grid, 0.1mm, draw the four vias
(in order! 1,2,3,4), draw lines on silk. Select all, convert
Where would I find a list of all the available footprint types for use
with pcb ?
How does one make a custom footprint ?
Thanks
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On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 13:47 -0400, devrin talen wrote:
I think the most popular is http://www.gedasymbols.org/. John Luciani
also maintains his collection at http://luciani.org/. As far as
creating footprints, I believe there are instructions (and/or links)
on the gEDA wiki.
Thanks for the
Anyone know of a source of footprints for the OST Pluggable Terminal
Blocks, such as the OST series ?
http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=ED2656-ND
(Didn't mean to promote Digikey, only use them as a source of
information.)
Thanks
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:30 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
I have the 3.5mm ones.
(* jcl *)
Thanks for the reply and thanks for sharing your stuff, John.
Could you be more specific than (*jcl*) ?
And if I mod these to be 5mm, do you want me to share them back to you ?
Thanks.
So I am not doing anything wrong with that symbol, that is just the size
it is ?
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:37 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
armdeveloper wrote:
Kudos to the gscheme developers for a great application.
I'd like to use header26-2 in a design. I go
add-component-connector
Where do I find the user's guide for gschem ? I've been to the wiki, so
I know about that. Is there a different one ?
I am wondering how one creates multi page schematics. How do I create
the feeds that go from page to page ?
Thanks.
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How does one add a net ? I see Add... Net, but then what do I do ? And
how do I get that nice net connector symbol ?
And while we are at it, how does one handle the power supply lines on a
quad op amp like the LM324 ?
Thanks.
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 16:21 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
I am
Kudos to the gscheme developers for a great application.
I'd like to use header26-2 in a design. I go
add-component-connector-header26-2.sym. It appears in the Preview
box. So far so good. If I right or left click in the box, the header
changes size. But when I place the header in my design,
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