Re: gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-15 Thread John Griessen
andrewm wrote: I like your minimization of vias. Most of your vias seem to double as headers for test and interconnect. Looks good. Good use of space -- little waste, but not too crammed to be a practical test/eval/modular add-on board. John Griessen PS What's it look like if you run

Re: gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:51:36PM +1000, andrewm wrote: http://www.thehacktory.com/IR-simple-v1p52-top.png If that big square is a thermal pad, it's not going to help much if you don't stitch it to more copper on the other side... Also, I think your attachments to the sides of those long,

Re: gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-15 Thread John Griessen
Ben Jackson wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:51:36PM +1000, andrewm wrote: http://www.thehacktory.com/IR-simple-v1p52-top.png If that big square is a thermal pad, it's not going to help much if you don't stitch it to more copper on the other side... So, what is that under chip square of

Re: gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-15 Thread andrewm
John Griessen wrote: I like your minimization of vias. Most of your vias seem to double as headers for test and interconnect. The only way I could work out how to do this easily in PCB was to make a new component that was just 5 pins in a row and add them in the schematic to the

Re: gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:28:41AM +1000, andrewm wrote: That is probably the nice way to do it and makes things more followable. In protel I just used to pop down vias and pads where ever I felt like it and it would let me connect them. You can do that in PCB. There are two things to keep

gEDA-user: First PCB

2007-09-14 Thread andrewm
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the grid alignment bug here is my first PCB produced with gEDA/PCB http://www.thehacktory.com/IR-simple-v1p52-top.png http://www.thehacktory.com/IR-simple-v1p52-bot.png It took several days because of learning curve and the grid bug and there are