Re: gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:21:23PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 07:13, William Dieter wrote: > > the gschem warmup at > > > > Thanks, Bill! This was exactly what I needed to get started. Any chance > a link to this

Re: gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 07:13, William Dieter wrote: > the gschem warmup at > Thanks, Bill! This was exactly what I needed to get started. Any chance a link to this could be added on gEDA documentation page? Or even better, perhaps it could be a

Re: gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

The gsch2pcb tutorial at and the gschem warmup at are a pretty good place to start learning gschem. They also help you get a good idea of the whole process assuming you are eventually going to make

Re: gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

Steve, Look in the parts libraries and you will find symbols that are for various size pages that have outlines, and information blocks. I often use title-bordered-A3.sym for a standard 8" x 11" sheet. Use a net to connect two pins from two symbols. On the tool bar the net tool may be selected b

Re: gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

Yikes! Two more dumb questions: 1. When I look at the example schematics they have nice boxes around them with the schematic name and author down in the lower right corner. When I create my own schematic it doesn't have that. I can't find any sort option on the save dialog to create it. Am I missi

gEDA-user: a couple of dumb new user questions

Okay, now that I've got gschem working, I've got a couple of questions. I checked the FAQ but didn't see these: 1. How do I control the default scale? When I start a new document and drop the first component on it, it's so tiny that it's just a few pixels across. I have to zoom the view way in to