Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 19:15 -0500, al davis wrote: Also .. Do not make the types of electronic components (diodes, resistors) inherent in the data base. They are just parts, and all parts have schematic symbols, layout footprints, and simulation models. Don't even try to make any

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-27 Thread Edward Hennessy
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Good database design dictates that the device types are not hard-coded into the data-structure, there is no explicit resistors table JOIN'd to drag in resistor specific data etc.. There really isn't a good solution for relational

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:18 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: --- On Wed, 1/27/10, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Good database design dictates that the device types are not hard-coded into the data-structure, there is no explicit resistors table JOIN'd to drag in resistor specific

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-27 Thread Bob Paddock
Rather than having a component class, explicitly subclassed in the database to contain resistor specific attributes, I would do it similar to the following: 1 component class / table, one size fits all. Each has a component ID. The Component ID is what I list on BOM. 1 attribute type class

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-26 Thread John Doty
On the chat, you wrote: On configuration directories, gEDA has the config directory and the data directory. The parts manager needs to locate the system-gafrc and the subdirectories for models, symbols, footprints, etc... It's not just that it has to locate *gafrc: it has to extract the

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-26 Thread al davis
On Friday 08 January 2010, Edward Hennessy wrote: I created a working document for a gEDA parts manager on the gEDA wiki. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gparts_dd If anyone has feedback or specific requirements, please provide feedback to geda-dev or geda-user mailing lists. I'll

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-26 Thread Bob Paddock
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:26 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: There gets to be fields needed like Can a

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-20 Thread Florian Teply
al davis ad...@freeelectron.net wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will include some useless stuff. I totally agree here with the part of leaving something out. Just make sure the

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Florian Teply
Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Florian Teply wrote: Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: I'm gonna try and make up a list of

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Florian Teply
Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Florian Teply wrote: Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread David C. Kerber
- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Steven Michalske Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:14 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Torsten Wagner wrote

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE) - Operating temperature range Cheers, Ed ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread al davis
On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will include some useless stuff. Just make sure the design is such that fields can be added and removed in the future without breaking anything. Same goes for

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:26 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE) ^^___ These relate to

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:26 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE)

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:50 AM, al davis wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will include some useless stuff. I agree. Just make sure the design is such that fields can be added and

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Florian Teply
Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: I'm gonna try and make up a list of properties of components starting with passive devices. I'll go from very generic properties to more

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Florian Teply ... Hmm, looks like i have finished said document, at least i can't think of anything to add. Surely, it's not finished yet and does only cover

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 08:49 -0500, David C. Kerber wrote: -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Florian Teply ... Hmm, looks like i have finished said document, at least i can't think of anything

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Florian Teply wrote: Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: I'm gonna try and make up a list of properties of components starting with

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread David C. Kerber
as the decision make some sense, which either one does. D -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Peter Clifton Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:10 AM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Parts

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:45 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Consider that some inductances that I use are not symmetric. While I don't know of any asymmetric resistors (but maybe they exist), some microwave broadband inductors are asymmetric (you can't swap pins 1 and 2, as for polarized

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:23:16PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:45 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Consider that some inductances that I use are not symmetric. While I don't know of any asymmetric resistors (but maybe they exist), some microwave broadband inductors

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:22:56AM -0500, David C. Kerber wrote: No, I meant passives, because it's not active. I don't consider semiconductor to be the opposite of passive. To me, a diode fits in the groups discrete (vice integrated), passive (vice active), and semiconductor (vice ???)

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 22:36 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Probably, but once again, it's a matter of turning the inductor around at assembly time. Sure - although what I was rather indirectly getting at - is that even for passives which you might think you could make the two pins equivalent

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, Recently, I talked with some people about EDA tools and they main arguments against gEDA were: 1) no MS-windows support 2) missing components It's very nice to see that this two topics are heavily discussed here. As for the Parts Manager I read the proposal and I like to share some

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-18 Thread Steven Michalske
On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Torsten Wagner wrote: 2) missing components At work we throw away the libraries that come with our $15K a seat tools. :-P I'm not sure how much a database would run against one fundamental of gEDA, which is the nice nativley use of pure text files. If there

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-17 Thread Florian Teply
On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Just as it enters my mind: This parts manager is essentially a hierarchical parts database. I could imagine that some guys would want to integrate other stuff like inventory,

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-16 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Can you elaborate a bit? What exactly is the parts manager supposed to do? How will/should it integrate with gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb ? I added a bit more description to the working document including a graphic showing the integration.

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-16 Thread John Griessen
Florian Teply wrote: Edward Hennessy ehen...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Florian, Thanks for the feedback. I'll add support for simulation models, but I'll need to do a bit more research on how the database columns map to symbol attributes. Just as it enters my mind: This parts manager is

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-15 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Just as it enters my mind: This parts manager is essentially a hierarchical parts database. I could imagine that some guys would want to integrate other stuff like inventory, preferred dealers, pricing, dealer part numbers and such. On the

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:02:07 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: What exactly is the parts manager supposed to do? How will/should it integrate with gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb ? I just read the description in the blue sky ideas thread. No need to post it to the list again. ---(kaimartin)--- --

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-14 Thread Florian Teply
Edward Hennessy ehen...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Florian, Thanks for the feedback. On Jan 9, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Florian Teply wrote: a) There seems to be a link between part and document missing. Documents are completely described, but never referenced. I created an ERD and put it in the

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-11 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:43:13 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: I created a working document for a gEDA parts manager on the gEDA wiki. Can you elaborate a bit? What exactly is the parts manager supposed to do? How will/should it integrate with gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb ? ---(kaimartin)--- --

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-10 Thread Edward Hennessy
Florian, Thanks for the feedback. On Jan 9, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Florian Teply wrote: a) There seems to be a link between part and document missing. Documents are completely described, but never referenced. I created an ERD and put it in the working document. b) Symbol:

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-09 Thread Florian Teply
On Saturday 09 January 2010 03:43:13 Edward Hennessy wrote: All, I created a working document for a gEDA parts manager on the gEDA wiki. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gparts_dd If anyone has feedback or specific requirements, please provide feedback to geda-dev or geda-user mailing

gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
All, I created a working document for a gEDA parts manager on the gEDA wiki. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gparts_dd If anyone has feedback or specific requirements, please provide feedback to geda-dev or geda-user mailing lists. I'll continue to update the document as the project