On Saturday 16 January 2016 19:41:45 Joe wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:13:14 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > But as I said in a PM, its moot, gEDA has come to the rescue. > > > > Now, if ALL the gEDA suite was brought up to date, the repo versions > > are positively ancient, I think it would have been easier. I was > > able to build the latest pcb, V-1.99z, but dependency hell ate any > > attempts to build the newer schematic capture front ends. So I had > > to resort to a hand edit occasionally with a text editor. > > What features of the latest and greatest do you need? I haven't used > anything in 20140316 that wasn't in 20110918, and I don't recall any > significant bugs then. This: > > http://www.jre-systems.co.uk/pcbs/images/RCP-1.png > http://minibroadcastcameras.co.uk/oem/images/slideshow/Panel52-top.png > > was created in late 2007, with whatever version was current at the > time. To be fair, I didn't use schematic capture then, I didn't have a > schematic for this board until after I made it, and to this day the > schematic is hand-drawn in pencil... > > I have used schematic capture (gschem and gsch2pcb) for everything > since 2007, with no significant problems. I've used whatever version > was current in sid. > Bugs in the gcode exporter are my main beefs. In the gcode output for bottom.ngc, with spot drilling enabled, it outputs a line for each of the holes, but fills the first 6 of those lines with X0 Y0, so it pecks at the lower right corner 6 times, and then spots the rest of the holes just fine.
Then, in the mill/drill file, it ignored the request for inches, outputs mm's, including the command that puts the LCNC interpretor into the mm's mode. But then when I check the file times, it was not even regenerated that last time I exported the gcode. So theres 4 bugs, the 4th one being that the gcode exporter fills everything in the boxes for its data translations, in with what I have to assume is mm data for everything that ought to be inches. But this is stuff I should take to the geda-user list, which I just sent a sub message to join. I do not for a millisecond, think this is a debian problem. > The autorouter has probably improved, but if you're doing anything > with power, you won't want to autoroute anyway. I pretty well only use > two-layer boards, and the last time I tried the autorouter, I could > barely see the tracks for vias. The earlier versions couldn't do a > photo-realistic rendering of the board, but that's only a bit of icing > on the cake, not a show-stopper. I clicked on it, several times after I had arranged things by hand, and it never did a thing except waste 1.5 seconds spinning its wheels. Now, to put this almost back on topic, the first $80 bytes of the bin/eagle file are: Humm, so much for that, khexedit will not do a mouse copy/paste. Luverly. Anyway it does say ELF in the first 5 or 6 bytes. Looks like a linux ext-something file to me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
