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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:03:39PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:

I had not noticed this before, but even at 1024 by 768 the font in the
status bar is rather small.

I agree that the font is a bit small even at 1024x768. :)
Another suggestion, based on the source code comment:

Compute a font point size for texts showed in Msg_Panel or
Status Lines. The best point size is equivalent to a point
size = 10 for a 96 ppp Arial font This is necessary because
system or default fonts can be bigger if we have selected 120
ppp fonts (big fonts), and messages are too longs and they
are truncated on display

Perhaps rather than displaying the information about certain
buttons, at least, in the status bar it would be easier to use
tooltips. This way they appear in a more logical place and
don't get truncated.

peace,
core

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:05:14PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:

Any chance you could do it in an OS agnostic form so Linux users can
benfit too?

Agreed, perhaps you can put screenshots on the new wiki.

peace,
core

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yajeed2000 wrote:

Hi,
I'm having a go at a quick and dirty EESCHEMA tutorial.It's being done with WINK, so will consist of screenshots and explanatory text boxes.
It will be downloadable as a stand alone EXE file.
It's just a simple 555 timer project (a bit boring,I know) but it will introduce most of the basic operations.
Next will follow a CVPCB and PCBNEW tutorial to follow on.
Hopefully it will be done in time for Christmas,but no promises.It will take this long because I have to learn WINK as well as review my kicad
skills.
Feedback on this will be appreciated.
David Briscoe.

Any chance you could do it in an OS agnostic form so Linux users can benfit too?

Ian

Martin Kratoska wrote:

Esteemed reflectees,
my problem is the font readability. A very small, Times faced font appears in the lower status bar as well as in many menus, ie. in the component library selection (but not in all menus).
Tested the last version in both Linux and Win XP environment, both behaved nearly similar. Because of screen resolution used (1280 x 1024) I simply can't read a 6 pt. font, even worse if Times faced. Therefore I suggest to change this font to a bit bigger size with Helvetice face.

I had not noticed this before, but even at 1024 by 768 the font in the status bar is rather small.

Ian

Except for the EXE part (avid Linux user here) I'm all for it.

B.

Hi,
I'm having a go at a quick and dirty EESCHEMA tutorial.It's being done
with WINK, so will consist of screenshots and explanatory text boxes.
It will be downloadable as a stand alone EXE file.
It's just a simple 555 timer project (a bit boring,I know) but it will
introduce most of the basic operations.
Next will follow a CVPCB and PCBNEW tutorial to follow on.
Hopefully it will be done in time for Christmas,but no promises.It will
take this long because I have to learn WINK as well as review my kicad
skills.
Feedback on this will be appreciated.

David Briscoe.

Esteemed reflectees,

my problem is the font readability. A very small, Times faced font appears in the lower status bar as well as in many menus, ie. in the component library selection (but not in all menus).

Tested the last version in both Linux and Win XP environment, both behaved nearly similar. Because of screen resolution used (1280 x 1024) I simply can't read a 6 pt. font, even worse if Times faced. Therefore I suggest to change this font to a bit bigger size with Helvetice face.

Many thanks

Martin Kratoska

Bryan Stillwell wrote:

After seeing a request earlier this week for a KiCad wiki, I went ahead
and set one up at the following site:

Well done. I have added a link to it in the links section of the group site.

Ian

Hi Bryan,

Good deal! This should help a lot.

Regards,

Phil

After seeing a request earlier this week for a KiCad wiki, I went ahead
and set one up at the following site:



There's not much there currently except for some info on my friend
Charlie's and my personal hacking on the KiCad codebase, but hopefully
that will change quickly!

The site isn't official in any way, but I would like to have it help
kickstart a community of sharing among people that use KiCad.

Currently I'm requiring people to be logged in to edit pages. The idea
is that this will cut down on wiki-spam, but if there's a large outcry I
can change this.

Bryan

Hello Chuck,
2 Ideas :
- You have bad sectors on your hard drive; in this case, you can try
to rename your kicad directory as kicad_old_install, and re-instal one
more time kicad in a new kicad directory, but in an other location on
your hard drive.

- A problem occured when you downloaded the kicad files; in this case,
try (if possible), to download one more time the .zip file, and
re-install it.

Hoping this will help.
Regards.
搁é尘测.




...chuck coffee <check_bud_gone@y...> wrote:

I have a question, and I am a new user with Kicad, having moved

from Elect. Workbench. - I downloaded and installed both the
Kicad-2005-10-27.zip and the doc_components-2005-09-07.zip files and
have Kicad directory.
Everything seems to run fine, however regardless of which or any
project I load, I always get two errors
1 - Library <library/device.lib> not found and
2 - Library <library/power.lib> not found.

---

Hello,
I would like to see vias on the soldermask
How is it possible ?

Thanks

Alain

On Sunday 20 November 2005 06:54 am, Ian bell wrote:

[CLIP]

Either way we need to somehow traverse the data structures and

> generate the VRML (or other format) output. This traversal is of
> course already implemented in the 3D viewer and could be re-used.

[CLIP]

KiCAD uses the Wings3d lib for rendering right? Doesn't wings3d have VRML
export? Shouldn't this just be a function wings3D call to export to VRML? Or
is VRML export only available from the wings3D application?

--
Regards,

Mike Sharkey


Bradford, Ontario
CANADA

--- In kicad-users@..., "Tracy" <bas_tad@y...> wrote:

Hello Everyone

I have been reading the list for a few weeks, you all seem much more
advanced than me ;)

I have been building electronic projects for a long time, but have
not learned to use any PCB software (exept for PCBExpress ...) so
I'm not really familliar with the process. I used to build 'dead
bug' style but the new tiny components do not work well with that!

Is there a very basic 'getting started' tutorial or example I can
follow that is designed for a newbie like me? I know my project, my
components, and everything to do with it, but I'm totally green on
creating a schematic and pcb with any software at all.

Basically, I need to create a 'hello world' pcb ;)

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, I'm overwhelmed with the
large amount of data available for Kicad and PCB creation in general.

Thank you all in advance!
Tracy N4LGH

What we need is a Wiki :)
Can you do that on Yahoo?

Tracy

Making PCBs is a complex process as you say - I have only done it as a
hobbyist, but I have created a couple of double sided boards for
Surface mount chips which were commercially made.
There are some who appear to be professionals on the list who may be
able to advise. I am not familiar with the finer points for commercial
SM production etc

The process is

Create Schematic components (hopefuly there will be enough ready made
components in the libraries already)

Draw schematic - you will be familiar with these no doubt. Read the
help - it appears reasonably good. Try to create a copy of a simple
circuit you already have

Create netlist - this is a file with the names for all the "nodes" in
a circuit and the pins that are connected to each.

Associate "footprints" with each component. These are the PCB pattern
for each component, with pin numbers which correlate to the netlist.
Again there will be enough in the PCB library already with luck.
If not you will have to create a footprint for some components using
the module editor.

Create the PCB
In brief :
Import components and netlist
create outline/mechanical drawing of board
Place modules in best positions
Draw tracks - in theory this could be done by the computer
In practice some human intervention is usually needed (how good is
the autorouter in KICAD??)
Check layout against netlist using DRC (Design Rule Check) and
correct the (inevitable) errors

Tidy up - a million details - drill sizes, placement of text on
overlay, track widths etc etc
Create plot files for PCB house - these are generally in Gerber
format - I havent got to this stage yet with KICAD Gerber files can be
tricky - I dont know how good KICAD is

Hope this is a start

Richard

Hello Everyone

I have been reading the list for a few weeks, you all seem much more
advanced than me ;)

I have been building electronic projects for a long time, but have
not learned to use any PCB software (exept for PCBExpress ...) so
I'm not really familliar with the process. I used to build 'dead
bug' style but the new tiny components do not work well with that!

Is there a very basic 'getting started' tutorial or example I can
follow that is designed for a newbie like me? I know my project, my
components, and everything to do with it, but I'm totally green on
creating a schematic and pcb with any software at all.

Basically, I need to create a 'hello world' pcb ;)

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, I'm overwhelmed with the
large amount of data available for Kicad and PCB creation in general.

Thank you all in advance!
Tracy N4LGH

I am a new user to Kicad and am acclimating from Eagle. One feature
that I haven't discovered (if it exists) is a way to 'pan' or 'scroll'
the drawing via mouse; that is, apart from using the scroll bars. Is
this feature implemented? Else, it would be a nice feature to add in
future revision.

Thanks,

Dave