Re: gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread evan foss
On 9/6/08, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Butts wrote: > > Hey John, > > > > I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who > couldn't > > wait to get their hands on this project. I gave them the measurements of > my > > backrest and they are running wit

Re: gEDA-user: pcb question: matching differential lines

2008-09-06 Thread Larry Doolittle
Jean - On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:17:14PM -0400, jean wrote: > Is there anyway in pcb to measure the length of the traces and > see how different they are? I'd like to have them match up as close as > possible instead of just eyeballing it. Yes. Report(NetLength), added 2007-03-03 by djdelorie.

Re: gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread John Griessen
Rob Butts wrote: > Hey John, > > I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who couldn't > wait to get their hands on this project. I gave them the measurements of my > backrest and they are running with this. It gives their students a chance > to work on a real project, to

Re: gEDA-user: pcb question: matching differential lines

2008-09-06 Thread Dan McMahill
Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2008 18:17:14 jean,,, wrote: >> Greetings to everyone here. >> >> I'm working on a new board and I have a couple differential lines in my >> design. Is there anyway in pcb to measure the length of the traces and >> see how different they are? I'd l

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Re: gEDA-user: pcb question: matching differential lines

2008-09-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 06 September 2008 18:17:14 jean,,, wrote: > Greetings to everyone here. > > I'm working on a new board and I have a couple differential lines in my > design. Is there anyway in pcb to measure the length of the traces and > see how different they are? I'd like to have them match up as

Re: gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread Rob Butts
Hey John, I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who couldn't wait to get their hands on this project. I gave them the measurements of my backrest and they are running with this. It gives their students a chance to work on a real project, to help the disabled and to use

gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread John Griessen
evan foss wrote: > Open cascade is just free as in beer. The license is really not what > you would think. OK then. I looked at the GCAM program site without installing it yet. Seems to have a 3D wireframe view of "hand made" macros done via GUI to create sets of RS-274 G codes. The G code mac

Re: gEDA-user: Linux's answer to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread evan foss
Open cascade is just free as in beer. The license is really not what you would think. On 9/6/08, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > I took a serious look at it before I settled for varicad. > > . > . > . > > This is a bit like ALGOL > > > ALGOL is a dubiou

gEDA-user: pcb question: matching differential lines

2008-09-06 Thread jean,,,
Greetings to everyone here. I'm working on a new board and I have a couple differential lines in my design. Is there anyway in pcb to measure the length of the traces and see how different they are? I'd like to have them match up as close as possible instead of just eyeballing it. -- Jean __

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Bug: poly clearance around rotated pads.

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Do you two want some more time to play with this, or should I commit > now and worry later? Here's an updated version of my patch which fixes the square pad and damaged polygon issues. Robert Index: src/polygon.c === RCS file: /

Re: gEDA-user: Linux's answer to SolidWorks

2008-09-06 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > I took a serious look at it before I settled for varicad. . . . This is a bit like ALGOL > ALGOL is a dubious choice for new projects. Has anyone tried Open Cascade? It's free and somewhat open, but it seems all the developers are in a for profit company -- maybe it h

Re: gEDA-user: Adding extra layer

2008-09-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
der Mouse schrieb: >> Anyway, memory is cheap. > > Only for mainstream mass-market hardware. > > Of course, that may be all gEDA cares about > >> If we lose users in order to save 1 K, or even 1 Meg of RAM, that >> doesn't make sense. > > Depends. To what extent is "more users" an overridi