Yea!! This is fantastic!
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
wrote:
> Hi.
> A few minutes ago, I fetched the latest PCB sources from git and recompiled.
> Surprise: The resulting binary includes translucent tracks and polygons!
> This is both, beautiful and very useful. See the atta
Yea, I second the last part of the. If you have a large library of
parts done in a particular tool you will have to redraft all of them.
That is not good.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:19 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote:
>
>
>
>> The developers always wante
I believe so. Thank you for sharing them.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Hi.
> I am curious: Is anyone on the list using the footprints and/or
> symbols in my department of gedasymbols.org?
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---
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>
Make a symbol and matching footprint for the antenna. It is a
functional element in the design.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Kovacs Levente wrote:
> I am designing a zigbee interface, and I am using an inverted F antenna
> out of PCB pattern. The problem is that the terminals of the antenna
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote:
> Evan Foss wrote:
>
>> I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It
>> might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot
>> of other formats already written.
>
> It m
Hi,
I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It
might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot
of other formats already written.
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Great I will give it a whirl.
Thank you.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> I have send it to the developers, see
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341489
>
> may take some days to go into the official tree, if you need it now, you
> may pull it from that page and
Oh yea I have my own diode symbols I use with it just to avoid issue. Sorry.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 16:31 -0400, evan foss wrote:
>> Search in PCB for ALF. That is what I use for threw hole diodes.
>
> But BEWARE... the AL
Search in PCB for ALF. That is what I use for threw hole diodes.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
> Is there no diode in the default PCB symbol directories?
> Thanks,
> Chris Maness
>
>
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
> wrote:
>> I just got aware of the open source mechanical CAD project freecad. It
>> hit the debian repository a month ago. Although it is still lacking
>> important features, much of the
Hi,
I would like to make threw hole solder tabs (not holes). The best
description of how to do this in PCB was from this email..
http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Feb-2005/msg00111.html
Has the process improved since then?
Thanks,
Evan
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:02:33PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>> On 11/03/2009 12:35 PM, Duncan Drennan wrote:
>> >> * gschem magnetic nets - always seem to snap to the wrong thing for me
>> >> so I end up turning them off always. Need to
Thanks guys.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gareth Edwards
wrote:
> 2009/9/30 Peter TB Brett :
>> Try adding the following to your gafrc:
>>
>> (load (build-path geda-rc-path "print-colormap-lightbg"))
>>
>
> Thanks, Peter, that works for me and I've update the wiki to reflect this.
>
> Gareth
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:15:55 +0000, evan foss wrote:
>
>> I would be happy to have it stay text only. Otherwise the settings that
>> get pulled in from the users .gschemrc and the projects .gschemrc will
>> get
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009 21:23:06 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:43 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
>> >> Dang. It really is bust. *grumble*
>> >
>> > Okay, I managed to get it working by making sure that my
>> >
>>
Thank you. I will install that version too and run it to test my configuration.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2009, at 11:37 AM, evan foss wrote:
>> I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both
>> 1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830 an
Hi,
I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both
1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830 and found that it won't work. Is
anyone else having this problem? My gschemrc file has
(output-color "enabled") ; for color postscript output
(image-color "enabled") ; for color PNG output (en
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, evan foss wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, igor2 wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, evan foss wrote:
>>>
>>>>You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, igor2 wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, evan foss wrote:
>
>>You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it is dvd now.
>>Perhaps we should have an electronics live disk of some kind?
>
> For a few semesters I was teaching gschem/pc
You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it is dvd now.
Perhaps we should have an electronics live disk of some kind?
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/2114210/Cheap-Cross-Platform-Electronic-Circuit-Simulation-Software?from
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Stephan
Boettcher wrote:
>
> Steven Michalske writes:
>
>> pick a small set of some chips you care about. lets say a large
>> family of the AVR series.
>>
>> To the symbol:
>> Add a virtual pin attribute
>> Add the pin map file attribute.
>
>> pinmap=A
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Michael
Sokolov wrote:
> Peter TB Brett wrote:
>
>> > * SnPb finish - this one is an absolute requirement for ideological /
>> > philosophical reasons, RoHS crap is *not* acceptable.
>>
>> In the nicest possible way, WTF?
>
> RoHS is an evil abomination that is r
The solution I always liked was making a simple live CD with the
project documentation and all. This is not for distribution it is
because about every 6 or 7 years I end up changing tools and can't
find anything to read my old stuff.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, KURT PETERS wrote:
>
> I've
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 21:33 -0400, evan foss wrote:
>> I have been using this release and I have a question. Did you guys
>> change the interpritation of gafrc? I keep loading a schematic and it
>> doesn't seem to
I have been using this release and I have a question. Did you guys
change the interpritation of gafrc? I keep loading a schematic and it
doesn't seem to render the symbols in the project directory properly.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:
>
> An unstable/development snapshot o
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009, evan foss wrote:
>>On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, andrewm wrote:
>>>> If anybody has a better idea, yelp.
>>>
>>> EDM ?
>>
>>Don't you aready need a hole to r
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, andrewm wrote:
>
>> If anybody has a better idea, yelp.
>>
>
> EDM ?
Don't you aready need a hole to run the wire threw? Or are you just
going to live with a very thin line cut threw to the hole?
If your are going to spend EDM level money water jet would be better
Funny title
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Aside from the two minor leak fixes I just committed to the PCB GIT
> repository, there was a pretty horrendous leak of polygon contours
> introduced in the PCB+GL branch, which is now fixed.
>
> (Now I can do my DRC checks withou
Someone with rights on the wiki should add at least a link to that email there.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Paul Tan wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> In general, current gEDA architecturally supports any kinds
> of BUS implementation. Specifically, current Gschem/Gnetlist
> Verilog netlister supports sim
prettier in my opinion.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, evan foss wrote:
> NTE/ECG/Philips sells chips that are pin for pin replacements for a
> lot of things. The thing is that the part number they use frequently
> don't match what anyone else uses. I looked up your part number in
NTE/ECG/Philips sells chips that are pin for pin replacements for a
lot of things. The thing is that the part number they use frequently
don't match what anyone else uses. I looked up your part number in a
reference book from 1996 and got this Dual M/S J-K Flip-Flop 5MHz I
have the pin out too if y
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Apropos "You-Blew-It" Electronics, here's a link to those unfamiliar
> with this Boston institution:
>
> http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/
>
>> Ok I know their prices are significantly higher than mail order from
>> almost everywhere but why
Ok I know their prices are significantly higher than mail order from
almost everywhere but why is it You-Blew-It?
While we are a little OT am I the only one who misses the days when
they carried more components and fewer audio video cables. They are
getting to much like radio shack.
On Fri, Mar 6,
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Eric Winsor wrote:
> I have been using the Digilent USB-JTAG cable to program Xilinx devices
> and now am working with some Lattice CPLDs in a new project. Does
> anyone know of some JTAG programming software that will recognize the
> Digilent USB-JTAG cable and a
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Steven Michalske wrote:
> might add a delay to the add action make it like a human is entering
> them :-P
I don't think Digikey cares how you are ordering.
>
> hardkrash
>
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Tim Hanson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I wrote this script ye
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, al davis wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Christoph Lechner wrote:
>> > How can it know?
>>
>> Well, I thought: maybe there's some attribute dedicated to
>> this case ...
>
> The Spice netlister is loaded with special cases, because the
> Spice syntax is loaded
Great work.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The unstable version of gschem now supports copying and pasting
> schematic data within and between gschem instances using the X clipboard
> (or the Windows clipboard on Windows).
>
> This feature will be ava
On 1/3/09, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just
> > happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR];
>
>
> The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. It's
> only true and relevent when an application is runni
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I have been cranking out schematics with gschem and as a general rule
> like it. I only have a couple of things I would like improved.
>
> 1. I do a lot of cut and paste. I would like the keyboard shortcut to be
> case insensitive. Make c or
On 9/23/08, John Luciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM, David C. Kerber
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto
On 9/22/08, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:12 PM, evan foss wrote:
> >>> (Just seeing what happens to all those taxes that we send out
> >>> East...)
> >>
> >> It's not all for museums ---
The last time I
On 9/22/08, John Luciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dave N6NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > (Just seeing what happens to all those taxes that we send out East...)
>
> It's not all for museums ---
>
> On behalf of the Bostonians on the list let me say thanks for
On 9/21/08, Larry Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys -
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:53:29PM -0400, evan foss wrote:
> > On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > But I did see this strange contraption from the street:
On 9/21/08, Steve Morss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Luciani wrote:
> > Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq
> > Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and a chainsaw.
> >
> > Pictures of the MIT Gehry building are at the bottom of the page.
>
I think that is a gyroscope. Those things connecting the rings are
likely resolvers or encoders of some kind.
On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Pictures I took at today's MIT Flea Market are at http://tinyurl.com/44mpwq
> > Enigma machines, an Arp Quartet, free advice and
On 9/6/08, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob Butts wrote:
> > Hey John,
> >
> > I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who
> couldn't
> > wait to get their hands on this project. I gave them the measurements of
> my
> > backrest and they are running wit
Open cascade is just free as in beer. The license is really not what
you would think.
On 9/6/08, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>
> > I took a serious look at it before I settled for varicad.
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> This is a bit like ALGOL
>
> > ALGOL is a dubiou
I would do an -pv just to check the USE flags.
On 4/12/08, Stefan Salewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gEDA/gaf 1.4.0 and pcb 20080202 are marked stable now in Gentoo-Linux
> (for x86, amd64, ppc and sparc).
>
> So for installation all you have to do is:
>
> emerge geda
>
> emerge pcb
>
>
>
>
The copyright is from the vendors not cadence. I am not a lawyer but
that would seem to mean that they don't want anyone to copy the
content they have there and redistribute it. They probably worked out
agreements with the vendors there to put all there content on one
page. I think you just have to
On Dec 3, 2007 11:28 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:47:03 -0500, evan foss wrote:
>
> > What about brlcad? It has been in development for decades on Unix and
> > now quite a while on Linux.
> > http://my.brlcad.org/
>
>
On Dec 3, 2007 9:39 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:50:30 +, Peter Clifton wrote:
>
> > Can you import VRML into mechanical CAD?
>
> My CAD application, varicad, can't. Varicad seems to be the only serious
> 3D-CAD available for linux. I would be nice, i
On Dec 3, 2007 1:24 PM, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> >> Can you import VRML into mechanical CAD?
> >
> > My CAD application, varicad, can't. Varicad seems to be the only
> > serious
> > 3D-CAD available for linux. I would be nice, i
On Dec 2, 2007 9:47 PM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 20:42 -0500, evan foss wrote:
> > Do you have the option of disabling the opengl code at run time if you
> > want or is it compiled in?
>
> Not only is it compiled in, the bo
Do you have the option of disabling the opengl code at run time if you
want or is it compiled in?
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On Dec 2, 2007 7:40 PM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:10 +, Peter Clifton wrote:
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> > Here is another teaser..
> > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gerbv_translucent.png
>
> And another...
>
> This is getting less "useful", but more pretty..
>
> htt
On 11/18/07, Peter TB Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 November 2007 22:52:14 evan foss wrote:
> > Try flipping a pin horizontally with out it. On my box that terminates
> > gschem. I had to recompile guile with it a few days ago.
> >
>
> This
Try flipping a pin horizontally with out it. On my box that terminates
gschem. I had to recompile guile with it a few days ago.
On Nov 18, 2007 6:44 PM, Stefan Salewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> last update of my Gentoo-Linux installed a new version of guile (version
> 1.8.2):
>
> Re
On 9/26/07, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
> .
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use a model of some of the micro's inouts
> that is 2-way connected with a math model in Mathomatic, Octave, Mathematica?
> For modeling some DSP being done with the HW multiply
> > How good is the temp. control on your oven?
>
> Er, zero control. I use a hotplate, which heats only the back of the
> board, so the solder melts before the chips get too hot. However,
> it's a $20 item, and basically has "on" and "off" settings.
>
> What I do is turn it on and wait. About 3
> Ok, here's a random thought. What if the hotplate reflow delaminated
> one of the layers? You'd still need a cause, but it would make the
> cause's minimum size smaller.
>
> Of course, there's no *visible* effect on the pcb from the hotplate,
> not even a mild yellowing on the back.
How good i
I have had audio amplifiers and large transistors in general buzz on
their own. Are you sure it is really on standby?
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Not to be insulting but is the speaker connected?
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What kind of alarm does your alarm clock use?
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[snip]
>it still bothers me though. It is like the fact that I can't get an
>omega symbol after a resistors value.
>
I just checked in an upper case omega font file into CVS that I've had
sitting around for a while along with the magic to make it work. However,
I haven't confirmed that omegas sh
Why is the 2nd bad? Suppose one of those wires got close but you didnt'
connect that last grid space? Suppose you fax the schematic to someone
and it is hard to tell solder dots or no solder dots? Suppose some
older CAD tool you once used had a bug and didn't always include all 4
nets. (ok
On 4/6/07, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 00:22 -0400, evan foss wrote:
> That is so cool. I can't wait to see it with say tabs.
Thanks.
I just posted another example - with an idea of how buses "might" be
represented. (This takes
That is so cool. I can't wait to see it with say tabs.
On 4/5/07, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm playing with producing a "page tree" to operate with libgeda /
gschem, so the hierarchy or content of a page can be seen easily.
In addition to being "nice", it allows certain data-str
On 4/3/07, Karl. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, my Firefox has a "close tab" button on the right of each
> tab. That seems to be very effective.
Middle-clicking on the tab is a faster way to close it, if you know that
trick - it's faster because you only have to aim for the tab (not the
li
I like the tabs. They would be just as useful if in a toolbar section. They
will cause less clutter there than as a separate
PageManager window...
I thought the point was to reduce the number of windows you have open.
I suppose you could make it user selectable but that would add
complexity.
I don't think that is cluttered at all. I typically end up with
multiple gschem windows open any way, this is less cluttered. I just
have one question how do you open and close the tabs. Is it like
firefox (right click).
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I used to use SuSE 9.0 on a PII but that failed eventually. (HDD crash)
SuSE is good for starters but 9.0 wouldn't build later versions of
gEDA for some reason.
(that might have been related to the HDD problem)
I used SuSE starting on version 6.3 and stayed until 9.2.
I am currently on gentoo. I a
Hello,
I used to run the last gEDA release on my Pentium II with 64MB of RAM.
I compiled from scratch. If you can run [EMAIL PROTECTED] gEDA should work.
The problem(s) you might have as a newbie are all dependency related.
At least that was what bothered me.
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I have not tried it but if you look at
http://ftp.brlcad.org/VolumeIV-Converting_Geometry.pdf
it talks about STL file. STL Import and Export according to page 18.
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Have you looked at brl-cad or qcad.
BRL-Cad is nice but I don't know what state the DXF output is in. It
is however free so it can't hurt to try. QCad has DXF but I have had
issues with it in the past. You might want to check with some of the
Linux-CNC people.
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