Re: gEDA-user: Grid Units in schematic editor

[Alex Huntley <alexn.huntley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help - much appreciated

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 18:09 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:57 +0000, Alex Huntley wrote:
> > I've started trying to use Geda for the first time, starting with the
> >    schematic editor.
> >    How do you change the grid units from imperial to metric (i.e. mm)?
> >    Forgive me if it's obvious and I'm being thick but I have checked the
> >    documentation and can't find anything.
> > 
> 
> For the schematics editor gschem the grid units are arbitrary -- there
> is not a fixed unit, because schematics are abstract.
> 
> Printout is usually scaled to fit to paper size.
> Most people use a title block, the border of this title block is then
> scaled to fit on the paper. Some title-blocks are called something like
> a4, but this is not really bound to a4 paper. We can use any title block
> we want (and print it).
> 
> For gschem you can select grid size in menu, but you have to ensure that
> pins of symbols end on grid points which are multiple of 100.
> 
> 



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