Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-19 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 14:23 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Stefan Salewski wrote: > > >> You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not > >> much in the tools to aid the selection. > > > > This is true, but we should say that this is in first order a problem > > for begin

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-19 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: >> You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not >> much in the tools to aid the selection. > > This is true, but we should say that this is in first order a problem > for beginners. I disagree with this statement. The lack of footprint choosing aid

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Doty wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Mark Rages wrote: > >> gschem->pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any >> other software I regularly use: >> >> http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread John Doty
On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Mark Rages wrote: > gschem->pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any > other software I regularly use: > > http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg The curves as drawn are nonsense. Generally they cross,

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:29 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Stefan Salewski wrote: > > If I order resistors, size 0805, they better fit a 0805 footprint ;-) > Seriously, can you give an example for parts with arbitrary footprint? > > ---<)kaimartin(>--- Of course. Many ICs of my DSO board are a

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> If I order resistors, size 0805, they better fit a 0805 footprint ;-) > Seriously, can you give an example for parts with arbitrary footprint? SMT connectors SOIC TQFN ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:05 -0500, Mark Rages wrote: > > > > gschem->pcb is farther to the right on Kathy Sierra's graphic than any > other software I regularly use: > > http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/kickasscurvetwo.jpg > > Just hang in there, it makes more sense e

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: > Much more difficult is to ensure that all your > footprints on your PCB board really match with your devices. One has to > do a printout of the PCB board and place all devices on it. Next time, > when you order parts from a different company, you may get other shapes > aga

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: >> blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for >> > the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footpri

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:20 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for > > the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use > > for other components. > > You just hit a major

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 11:41 -0500, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > > What I've found myself doing for this is to run PCB and flip through > its footprint library until I find the particular footprint I want, Of course, if you have an idea of the name of the footprint (i.e. from Datasheet) one may try

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread kai-martin knaak
blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for > the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use > for other components. You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not much in the tools to a

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:25:25 -0700 blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the > tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for > other components. For instance I have a schematic with a couple LEDs on it >

gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

2010-07-17 Thread blueeagle2
I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for other components. For instance I have a schematic with a couple LEDs on it and a radial style electrolytic capacitor. The schemati