Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-25 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Kai-Martin Knaak writes: > Stephan Boettcher wrote: > >> For example the outline of the board on the attached picture > > This looks nice. > How about a Ben mode rendered image of this layout on the gallery > of gpleda.org? (Ideally augmented with the shadow effect of image > magick) Since

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread John Griessen
On 02/23/2011 03:49 PM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: For example the outline of the board on the attached picture Looks like a sea urchin! Yay non-GUI! JG ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stephan Boettcher wrote: > For example the outline of the board on the attached picture This looks nice. How about a Ben mode rendered image of this layout on the gallery of gpleda.org? (Ideally augmented with the shadow effect of image magick) > (which will launch into space later this ye

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > Mark Rages writes: > >> You would be wise to avoid PCB for anything non-rectangular.  It is >> exceedingly painful. > > I do recommend pcb for anything non-rectangular.  The arcs can be nicely > done in gnumeric, python, awk, whatever.  

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:20 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:14:49 +0100 > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > DJ Delorie wrote: > > > > > Or write a plugin that does a MoveComponent() > > > > A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general > > scriptability. IMHO

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Mark Rages writes: > You would be wise to avoid PCB for anything non-rectangular. It is > exceedingly painful. I do recommend pcb for anything non-rectangular. The arcs can be nicely done in gnumeric, python, awk, whatever. With a gui this will be difficult. For example the outline of the bo

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:18:48 -0500 DJ Delorie wrote: > > A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general > > scriptability. IMHO, this should be part of the core, not as a > > volatile plugin. > > If you'd like to do the patch, go for it. Otherwise, a plugin gets > him a solution

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:18:48PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general > > scriptability. IMHO, this should be part of the core, not as a > > volatile plugin. > > If you'd like to do the patch, go for it. Otherwise, a plugin gets > him a s

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:14:49 +0100 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Or write a plugin that does a MoveComponent() > > A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general > scriptability. IMHO, this should be part of the core, not as a > volatile plugin. Is there som

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> How exactly does one put them on the board in the right place without > doing it manually for each element? Like this... LoadFrom(Layout,powermeter-blank.pcb) LoadFrom(LayoutToBuffer,channel1.pcb) . . . PasteBuffer(ToLayout,0,3) RenumberBuffer(0,10) PasteBuffer(ToLayout,0,8) RenumberBu

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > I'm trying to make a board with a moderate number of LEDs arranged in > concentric circles.  To do this, I am trying to formulate a pcb command > script that will perform all the necessary operations to do this. > > The basics are working,

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:36:58 -0500 DJ Delorie wrote: > > If you know where each LED goes, why not put them on the board in the > right place, instead of dispersing them then moving them? Then you > know where the Paste() reference is. How exactly does one put them on the board in the right pla

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general > scriptability. IMHO, this should be part of the core, not as a > volatile plugin. If you'd like to do the patch, go for it. Otherwise, a plugin gets him a solution faster, and it can be merged into the core later. __

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: > Or write a plugin that does a MoveComponent() A MoveComponent() action would be a major step toward general scriptability. IMHO, this should be part of the core, not as a volatile plugin. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-S

Re: gEDA-user: pcb commands to automatically select, cut, rotate, and paste elements

2011-02-23 Thread DJ Delorie
If you know where each LED goes, why not put them on the board in the right place, instead of dispersing them then moving them? Then you know where the Paste() reference is. Or write a plugin that does a MoveComponent() :-) ___ geda-user mailing li