Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Juergen Harms wrote: > > 2. Usage notes, stability > > Problems: > - I had quite frequent problems adding points to a polygon - but no > serious problem, saving and re-starting pcb always helped It would help to know if you were using thin-drawn polygon

Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Juergen Harms
Whow, seeing the pcb forum I had thought that this is a quiet place where not much happens, and just wanted to say great stuff! What you say needs careful replying - I am off for a long weekend, dont know whether I will manage before coming back. Cheers, Juergen ___

Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Dave N6NZ
Juergen Harms wrote: > > 3. Wishes > > - Be able to export directly to Gerber - I presently export the .pcb > files to a windows system and use the GC-Preview tool from ... I have > seen that an alfa release of a Gerber previewer exists at Sourceforge, > but that does not allow to import .pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Ian Chapman
1. Installation: - There is no way to have non-copper holes (even adding 0x08 to the flags does not help) - forget it == Pin[-39800 0 7500 2000 6500 5550 "Pin_2" "2" "pin"] Pin[21800 0 7500 2000 6500 5550 "H1" "3" "hole"] Hole I guess goes onto the unplated drill fil

Re: gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:05:17 +0200, Juergen Harms wrote: > Problems: > - I had quite frequent problems adding points to a polygon - but no > serious problem, saving and re-starting pcb always helped can you be a bit more specific on how to reproduce the problems? > - There is no way to have non

gEDA-user: Newby experiences with the pcb layout tool

2008-07-31 Thread Juergen Harms
My felicitations, that is a great tool! Here are a couple of observations which might be interesting to other users. 1. Installation: Platform : Mandriva-Linux 2008.1 Additional rpm-packages required: byacc, libgtk+2.0_0-devel, gd-utils, libgd-devel. With these packages installed, installatio