Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread gedau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:48:00PM -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Being lazy I am importing footprints other folks kindly made for pcb. Unfortunately, I am not very trusting, so I want to check they are correct. I can measure the size of stuff using gerbv (there may be a better

Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:48:00 -0800 (PST) Oliver King-Smith oliver...@yahoo.com wrote: I can measure the size of stuff using gerbv (there may be a better way to do this in pcb) Use Ctrl+M to set an origin. You have relative coordinates printed next to the cursor position. Levente -- Levente

Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread Oliver King-Smith
@moria.seul.org Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 12:27:28 AM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:48:00PM -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Being lazy I am importing footprints other folks kindly made for pcb. Unfortunately, I am not very trusting

Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Oliver King-Smith oliver...@yahoo.com writes: Thank you for the info. Both the Ctrl-M idea from Levente and you suggestion for pin labels worked well for me. A lot of features in PCB are not easily discoverable. Discoverability is a major quality factor with UI software. Info-Key

gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-29 Thread Oliver King-Smith
Being lazy I am importing footprints other folks kindly made for pcb. Unfortunately, I am not very trusting, so I want to check they are correct. I can measure the size of stuff using gerbv (there may be a better way to do this in pcb), but I can't tell if the right pin numbers have