Re: gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

2007-01-29 Thread Tomaz Solc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi > You may want to try using a digital camera to take a picture of the > board or enclosure. Use image-magick/gimp to simplify and scale the > image. You could then print out a piece of paper, verify it matches > the enclosure and take your measure

Re: gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

2007-01-29 Thread John Luciani
On 1/28/07, Michael Sokolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello fellow gEDA/PCB users, I would like to fit my design into the form factor from an existing gadget so that I don't have to invent my own mechanical design and can utilise a ready-made enclosure. This means that I need to carefully meas

RE: gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Hansen
oles, otherwise you run the risk of shorting traces to the enclosure. Good luck! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Sokolov) Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor Date: Mon, 29 Jan 200

Re: gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

2007-01-28 Thread DJ Delorie
In my case, measuring the existing board showed that it was english - everything lined up nicely on an inch ruler. Try both rulers and see if you get lucky. size of board - you can always be a little too small. mounting holes - the amount you can be off by is related to the difference between t

gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

2007-01-28 Thread Michael Sokolov
Hello fellow gEDA/PCB users, I would like to fit my design into the form factor from an existing gadget so that I don't have to invent my own mechanical design and can utilise a ready-made enclosure. This means that I need to carefully measure out the existing board in order to reproduce its mech