Hello all, First of all, I would like to express a huge "thank you" to all the people who built and contributed to gEDA. I recently finished a largish project with hundreds of devices and thousands of nets, and I got the work done without a hitch. I find that gschem, PCB and other gEDA building blocks are amazingly powerful tools. I'd really like to contribute something back -- but as I'm not really a proficient coder (otherwise I wouldn't be asking the question below), simple things like symbols and footprints is all I can think of. And oh, I can do translations. Suggestions are welcome, although I probably won't get round to spending much time on anything until this summer.
Then two more usage questions: - Zero length lines in PCB: I found that when drawing lines in PCB, sometimes dots (zero length lines) get created inadvertently on corners and bends. This isn't much of a problem, until I start dragging lines and end points in rubber band mode: those dots then get stretched into undesired line segments which I sometimes don't notice until I get DRC errors and warnings about short circuits. Do I recall correctly that someone created a script to filter out those zero-length lines? I can't find anything in the mailing list archives, and it turns out that a regex recognizing Line[X Y X Y ... ] doesn't seem all that trivial to construct. - Work flow of newer gschem/PCB version: until recently, I worked with an older PCB version (20080202), but I finally got round to compiling and installing the latest version -- and it's quite an improvement (no more disappearing crosshairs, outlines and other GUI imperfections). Now I was used to the work flow of gschem -> [update pcb in] xgsch2pcb -> PCB, but this appears to have changed. Now I think I can find out by myself, but being a lazy person, I wondered if someone could explain this in a few words. Do I also need a newer gschem version? And has anything changed with regard to custom created symbols and footprints (as in: how do I make the new gschem and PCB versions aware of their existence?). Anyway, thanks once again, and please tell me if e.g. footprints or symbols I created are welcome (and where I can send these). I could also put them online on my own server, although I'd first like to add descriptions and (pointers to) manufacturers' datasheets, so that it's clear what part a particular symbol or footprint actually refers to. Best regards, Richard Rasker _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
