Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-19 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ed Hartnett wrote: So it looks like I am missing an m4 footprint called SIP2N. I will took a look at gedasymbols, but it was not there. Can you email it? The attribute footprint=SIP2N was brought by the connector symbol in the default. However, the default lib of PCB does not include a

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-16 Thread Ed Hartnett
Wow, thanks for all the great information guys!! I am starting to work through all the info you provided; I'll send an update when I have tried out some of your suggestions and studied the example. Thanks again! Ed ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-16 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy Kai-Martin! Thanks for the answers and especially the example! I am looking at it closely. You have a bunch of gnd symbols around the place. When you create your netlist, these are not going to be on it, correct? Because you have these pins connected to grn symbols without

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-16 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy Kai-Marten! I ran your example through gsch2pcb and got the following output: = Using the m4 processor for pcb footprints CONN2: can't find PCB element for footprint SIP2N (value=unknown) So device CONN2 will not be in the

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-16 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ed Hartnett wrote: You have a bunch of gnd symbols around the place. When you create your netlist, these are not going to be on it, correct? The netlist does not contain symbols or footprints anyway -- just pins and nets :-) The gnd symbols make sure, a particular pin is connected to the gnd

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-11 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 05:19:01 -0600 Ed Hartnett edwardjameshartn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:46 AM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: I am trying to make my first PCB and I have selected a super-simple circuit to start with, a 555 astable circuit. It's a

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-09 Thread Ed Hartnett
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:46 AM, DJ Delorie [1]d...@delorie.com wrote: I am trying to make my first PCB and I have selected a super-simple circuit to start with, a 555 astable circuit. It's a single-sided board, and I'm going to etch it myself - something I've always wanted to

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ed Hartnett wrote: Do I add a connector on gschem yes. and use it instead of then GND/5V symbols? no. You add just one connector and connect it with the gnd-symbol. Then you connect the gnd symbol wherever you need GND potential. Or do I associate a footprint of HEADER2_1 with each

gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy all! I'm an EE trying out gEDA/PCB for the first time. What a wonderful set of free software! Marvelous! I am trying to make my first PCB and I have selected a super-simple circuit to start with, a 555 astable circuit. It's a single-sided board, and I'm going to etch it

Re: gEDA-user: question about how to get pads on my circuit board for power and gnd...

2011-07-04 Thread DJ Delorie
I am trying to make my first PCB and I have selected a super-simple circuit to start with, a 555 astable circuit. It's a single-sided board, and I'm going to etch it myself - something I've always wanted to try. But what footprints do I use for the GND and VCC connections? I guess I would