Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
There's a way to do that in EAGLE that doesn't involve using their
(pay for) services. However, there's significant programming
involved.
You need to take the board file apart, then figure out where
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Harvey White
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#35742
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oshpark PCBs arrived pretty
Pretty oshpark.com? PCBs arrived?? today:
http://www.learnmorsecode.com/gerber/gbr2drl/oshpark.jpg
http://www.learnmorsecode.com/gerber/gbr2drl/index.html
This has been a caveman paint on the
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Rob
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#35741
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
"Not happening" is a good answer in my book.
I suggest you try creating a file named .Xdefaults in your home directory using your favourite editor. (That file might actually already be there; because
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Donald H Locker
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#35740
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution dumbdown
yep
DUMBing down a high resolution display is a very useful trick.
If you ever find yourself in a program that appears locked into one size and only takes up a quarter of your
display area then
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Rob
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#35739
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Re: who said use gEDA
These things can be set up.
If you don't find solution by yourself, get on their mail list and ask.
Branko
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brane212
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#35738
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
If you use Fusion 360 for CAD stuff, you can send a 3D model of your board
to Fusion so you can design an enclosure for it.
In theory if you redesign the board (eg move some LEDs around) those
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Tony Smith
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#35737
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
If you can live with the limitations of the free version of EAGLE (all
libraries, 2 layers, 3 * 4 inch boards and one schematic sheet), then
that's free. You may or may not like the interface, but
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Harvey White
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#35736
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
So my 1920x1200 display has to be dumbed down to 800x600 for all programs just to be able to see the menus in pcb.?? Not happening.
Using Kubuntu there is no .Xdefaults file so have no idea about
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William Kimber
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#35735
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Re: who said use gEDA 800 X 600 resolution
YES====>>>>>Font is too small, very light and just about unreadable once a menu is opened.
I am on LINUX MINT.
I went to LINUX HOME then PREFERENCES then DISPLAY and selected 800 X 600 resolution
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Rob
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#35734
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Re: who said use gEDA
Ok, thanks. That is kind of what I figured...
Dave
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Dave
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#35733
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Re: who said use gEDA
"William Kimber" <zl1tao@...> writes:
Yes, that's the whole point. It does NOT use gtk, so it does NOT use
the system settings, which only affect gtk apps. It uses its own
settings in
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DJ Delorie
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#35732
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Re: who said use gEDA
Well I tried the pcb-lesstif version in my distro and it is just as unusable as the plain pcb.
Font is too small, very light and just about unreadable once a menu is opened.? In neither case does
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William Kimber
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#35731
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Re: who said use gEDA
"Dave" <theschemer@...> writes:
We don't really have any windows or mac maintainers at this point, so if
you're a windows or mac user, use Kicad.
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DJ Delorie
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#35730
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Re: who said use gEDA
"Rob via Groups.Io" <roomberg@...> writes:
You're welcome.
A HID is a "human interface device". PCB has two HIDs that are GUIs -
one that uses the GTK toolkit, and the other uses the
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DJ Delorie
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#35729
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Re: who said use gEDA
DJ,
? Is the Windows version of gEDA stable and useful? Just curious as it seems geared towards Linux.
Thanks
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Dave
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#35728
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Re: who said use gEDA
THANK YOU
what is lesstif HID?? ?
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Rob
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#35727
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Re: who said use gEDA
Snapeda as well as the availability of footprints and symbols from vendows, manufacturers and suppliers drove me to kicad iver feda.Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Tablet
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dale.chatham
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#35726
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Re: who said use gEDA
"Rob via Groups.Io" <roomberg@...> writes:
gEDA's PCB does not require a schematic or component library. Just open
PCB and start drawing, like GIMP. You can use the default library
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DJ Delorie
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#35725
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Re: who said use gEDA
I get the distinct idea that gerda is withering away.Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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dale.chatham
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#35724
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Re: who said use gEDA
OK, in short:
GEDA should be more than sufficient to cover your needs ( judging by your posts), either with fabricated or DIY PCB boards.
I've done them with it both ways. It works - for me.
That
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brane212
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#35723
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