Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-04-02 Thread Mark Rages
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:32 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: And how hard would it be to change to allow text and polygons on the silk layer? We already have that. I mean, in footprints. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-04-02 Thread DJ Delorie
And how hard would it be to change to allow text and polygons on the silk layer? I mean, in footprints. It would mean changing: * the footprint file format * the pcb file format * the element internal structure * anything that moves/rotates elements * anything that calculates element

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-31 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:16:20 -0400, gene glick wrote: Hmmm, I see that the text on my symbol disappears when changing the selection to an element. Seems like making silk screen text has to occur at layout. This is a consequence of footprints being unable to contain text. Lines on footprint

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:14:46 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: The footprint format doesn't support any extra text, sorry. Why is this so? Any reason why a footprint should not contain any object, a layout can? ---(kaimartin)--- ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-29 Thread DJ Delorie
The footprint format doesn't support any extra text, sorry. Why is this so? Nobody has done it yet. Any reason why a footprint should not contain any object, a layout can? Nobody has done it yet. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-29 Thread DJ Delorie
And how hard would it be to change to allow text and polygons on the silk layer? We already have that. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Is there a way to put some silk screen text on one the component side and some on the solder side? TAB to flip the board over, then add text. It could be done manually when in layout, but would be nice to do it at footprint definition stage. The footprint format doesn't support any extra

Re: gEDA-user: silk on other side of board

2009-03-28 Thread gene glick
Hmmm, I see that the text on my symbol disappears when changing the selection to an element. Seems like making silk screen text has to occur at layout. gene ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org