Re: gEDA-user: New Column: From the CAD Library

2011-02-07 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 7 2011, rickman wrote: The real question is does the current method cause any problems? When this was discussed a few months ago the answer was "no". So why worry about 1 part in a million error? Engineering is all about tolerances. We do have some problems with rounding and 45-degr

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL instructions

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Ethan Swint wrote: I was expecting just to get back "git clone -o pcjc2 git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git" or some such, but in response Peter has posted what looks to be an excellent guide to his blog at http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2011/02/pcbgl-rep

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL instructions

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Ethan Swint wrote: Fairly slow scrolling on Firefox 3.6.13 on Fedora, but it seems faster in the sections without images. I looked at a few of the images and they all seem to be >150kB, even though they are pretty small pixel-wise. Much slower scrolling than other web sites.

Re: gEDA-user: polygon regression in pcb+gl

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Ineiev wrote: Pushed to git-head. Thanks, Ineiev Awesome - welcome to the development team. Feel free to ping me if there were any outstanding review issues you wanted me to look at with any of your existing patches. I feel very guilty I've not managed to get more of your

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: DRC does not correctly check pad clearance

2011-02-21 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Feb 21 2011, Ineiev wrote: On 2/19/11, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I can confirm for fairly recent versions of pcb and pcb+gl. In your example, DRC starts to complain at 7.1 mil. That is, 2 mil too late. The discrepancy grows as the clearance grows. With an 11 mil gap I had to ask for 14.1 mil

gEDA-user: Important gsch2pcb fixes in git HEAD

2011-05-10 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
Hi Everyone, Anyone using git HEAD gEDA fetched after March 8th should fetch again from git and rebuild. There is an important fix for gsch2pcb which may prevent random crashes, failures and generally bad behaviour which has been present in the git HEAD version since the commit after a7a0bd2

Re: gEDA-user: Refresh all polygons

2011-05-10 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On May 10 2011, DJ Delorie wrote: Make sure you have my patch to src/insert.c that calls ClearFromPolygon() and RestoreToPolygon(). Failing that, Peter says calling InitClip() for every polygon will recompute them, but at the moment, there's no way to do that from the GUI. In theory, you shou

Re: gEDA-user: PCB panner control

2011-09-07 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Sep 7 2011, Colin D Bennett wrote: (Actually, I would prefer to stop auto-scroll forever, because it always scrolls when I don't intend it to, and it doesn't work right when I _do_ want it to scroll... I wonder if it can be disabled by setting auto-pan-speed in pcb preferences file to 0... Y

Re: gEDA-user: Thindraw and the HID interface... [WAS: Re: pcb segmentation fault]

2009-03-06 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Mar 6 2009, DJ Delorie wrote: >Please don't. I don't mind splitting pins and pads, but I toggle pins >and vias separately a lot - especially when I want to select them by >type, check masks or clearances, etc. Ok, fair enough. >> For GL (which can do opacity quite easily), some kind of (opti

Re: gEDA-user: Thindraw and the HID interface... [WAS: Re: pcb segmentation fault]

2009-03-06 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Mar 6 2009, Steven Michalske wrote: > >On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >> For GL (which can do opacity quite easily), some kind of (optional) >> automatic fading (or just toggling) of surface features like pads >> might >> be useful, based on the active layer being worked

Re: gEDA-user: Thindraw and the HID interface... [WAS: Re: pcb segmentation fault]

2009-03-06 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Mar 6 2009, Steven Michalske wrote: > >On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >> Our visibility groups allow toggling of pins / pads, and vias >> separately. Since Vias are presently all-layer constructs, as are >> pins, >> it makes more sense to group those two. Pads are surface

Re: gEDA-user: SO-28 follow up

2006-08-06 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Aug 6 2006, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: Yesterday I posted a message regarding a failure in gsch2pcb when the footprint contained the string "SO-28". It seems that any footprint beginning with "SO-" will fail. Hi, I'm not a gschem2pcb expert, but AFIK, any footprint with "-" in the name

Re: gEDA-user: double buffering in gschem?

2006-08-17 Thread Peter C.J. Clifton
On Aug 17 2006, Ales Hvezda wrote: [snip] I know X11 can do it (I've done it in Xt apps ages ago) but I don't know how deeply that stuff is buried underneath gtk. The lack of double buffering is purely a gschem issue and how rendering is implemented. It's just the way gschem was w