On Saturday 09 January 2016 15:18:38 Joe wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 12:39:35 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
