Re: gschem only partially works
On Saturday 09 January 2016 15:18:38 Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 12:39:35 -0500
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I
> > need several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc
> > machine tool.
> >
> > Now I would like to translate that to a pcb I can make.
> >
> > However, its been an exercise best described as the 10,000 monkeys
> > with typewriters miraculously re-creating Shakespears works.
> >
> > The reason? In the help pulldown, the top 3 items that should give
> > one access to the documentation for the geda suite of programs, do
> > ANAICT nothing, not even a disk access spike is shown by gkrellm.
>
> I've been using the gEDA suite for over eight years, and it never once
> occurred to me to look on that help menu... you're quite right, it
> doesn't work, and I have the full set of packages here.
>
> In this case, the Net is the repository of all wisdom. gEDA is still
> under considerable development and documentation changes fairly
> quickly, in fact, the whole organisation of the gEDA site has changed
> since I last looked there:
>
> http://www.geda-project.org/
>
> This might be what you're looking for at the moment:
>
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial
>
> and you'll probably want the PCB manual in PDF:
>
> http://pcb.geda-project.org/manual.html
>
> Check your PCB version, this is a moving target.
Its moot, I gave up and will make a 60 mile round trip to the shack in
the next day or so for some of their project boards.
> Here's one of the many tutorials:
>
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/gs.html
>
> If you have any problems finding components in either schematic symbol
> or PCB footprint form, you may need to make them. This isn't
> difficult, they're all text files and there is plenty of
> documentation. There are some footprint generators, I made a two-pad
> SMD generator in a spreadsheet, but there are more ambitious scripts
> out there.
>
> There are quite a few parts in addition to those built into the
> application, this site is the main collection:
>
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/
>
> I had a bit of a communications problem trying to get some space here,
> so in the end I put some of my symbols and footprints here:
>
> http://www.jre-systems.co.uk/geda/index.html
>
> I've had the Gerber files produced by this suite fabricated by at
> least three different PCB manufacturers, with no problems. It can also
> produce position data for automatic assembly of the SMD components, if
> you ever move into mass production.
>
> Yes, the learning curve is a bit steep...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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