Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-24 Thread Harry Eaton
Tuck Hartshorn wrote: (btw, why is there no ":DisplayFlag(selected,join)" ?) What would you have this command do? You can get a report on any individual track with the ctrl-r key. The actual flag is named "clearline" and is logically opposite from the "join" notion that we used to name th

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-23 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
On Saturday 23 December 2006 03:27, Harry Eaton wrote: > > All of the "nets" (a misnomer; they are tracks) that you've already > drawn apperently > already have their join flag set. That is they have been told to touch > any polygons they encounter. > It seems you wanted to draw them with the "new

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-23 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
On Friday 22 December 2006 21:24, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I got cvs but it failed to make completely. The current cvs is missing > > some .pngs in the ./doc dir, namely puller.png and thermal.png > > FAQ. Disable the docs: ./configure --enable-doc=no > That works but the version is still the same

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-23 Thread Harry Eaton
Tuck Hartshorn wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 20:37, DJ Delorie wrote: latest as in cvs? I got cvs but it failed to make completely. The current cvs is missing some .pngs in the ./doc dir, namely puller.png and thermal.png But, I thought the binary might be ok, anyway. And, it

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> I got cvs but it failed to make completely. The current cvs is missing > some .pngs in the ./doc dir, namely puller.png and thermal.png FAQ. Disable the docs: ./configure --enable-doc=no > But, I thought the binary might be ok, anyway. And, it does seem to > work. Shows version 1.99u inst

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
On Friday 22 December 2006 20:37, DJ Delorie wrote: > > latest as in cvs? I got cvs but it failed to make completely. The current cvs is missing some .pngs in the ./doc dir, namely puller.png and thermal.png But, I thought the binary might be ok, anyway. And, it does seem to work. Shows versio

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> latest as in cvs? Yes. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
On Friday 22 December 2006 18:20, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Note that the most recent pcb knows how to slice up a polygon > (i.e. rectangle) to remove isolated islands. It should make pours > easier. > latest as in cvs? I have the latest release--20060822. It did NOT appear to isolate, which prompted

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> So my thinking of one large rectangle as the "pour" wont work in PCB > (I think I got that from eagle). It can, assuming the plane is "simple" enough. If there's multiple planes are on one layer (like my board), or if there are a lot of signals on the layer, a single rectangle is insufficient.

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
On Friday 22 December 2006 17:42, DJ Delorie wrote: > > How do I add a ground plane (or any other kind to a pcb)? I tried > > drawing rectangles on the "GND-solder" layer thinking that it would > > automatically connect itself to GND nets, but no. It does seem to > > create a polygon that has the

Re: gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> How do I add a ground plane (or any other kind to a pcb)? I tried > drawing rectangles on the "GND-solder" layer thinking that it would > automatically connect itself to GND nets, but no. It does seem to > create a polygon that has the pad/pin plus the via layers subtracted > but no other. So I

gEDA-user: Ground-plane in Pcb

2006-12-22 Thread Tuck Hartshorn
How do I add a ground plane (or any other kind to a pcb)? I tried drawing rectangles on the "GND-solder" layer thinking that it would automatically connect itself to GND nets, but no. It does seem to create a polygon that has the pad/pin plus the via layers subtracted but no other. So I think