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Re: gEDA-user: View->Displayed element name->Value
--- El jue, 30/10/08, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> De: Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: Re: gEDA-user: View->Displayed element name->Value
> Para: electronics_questions@xxxxxxxx, "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fecha: jueves, 30 octubre, 2008 4:59
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:47 +0000, Eduardo Santana wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
>
> > Ah, and another thing yet!. I got to a point where I
> had to delete the
> > ground plane layer and rebuild it/regroup it because
> after some
> > retouches, the ground plane got completely twisted. By
> times not even
> > turning off `thin draw poly' I could see it at
> all.
> >
> > I've just noticed that not letting routes lay too
> near from components
> > (especially when it will stay in parallel with such
> components' pins)
> > will somehow cause the logic to confuse less.
>
> Save -> Reload the PCB layout is a common way to cure
> that, less drastic
> than deleting and re-building the power planes.
>
> This said, this is of course not what we want, and a lot of
> these bugs
> got fixed recently. What version of PCB are you using?
>
Ah ok, I never actually tried reloading the layout within the running pcb, though I tried saving, quiting and restarting the application, thanks.
Yes I always tend to use software from the repository, my current version is 1.99x, checked out about two weeks ago iirc.
And the save-quit-
> If you feel able, building a version of PCB from CVS is a
> good way to
> get all the latest bug fixes.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=73743
>
> cvs
> -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/pcb
> login
>
> When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press
> the Enter key.
>
> cvs -z3
> -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/pcb co
> -P PCB
>
>
> > Now, I'm just curious cose Delorie said that I can
> disable the layer
> > so (I understood) it won't be rendered at output
> time time even if it
> > got things drawn on it.
> >
> > However, I don't seem to be able to achieve it.
> The only way I could
> > think of disabling a layer is pressing on it's
> name up in the upper
> > left hand side stack behind the menu bar, but then it
> get's written to
> > the output file (postscript is what I'm using).
> >
> > Is there anyway to avoid this?
>
> No, clicking on the name in the layer stack doesn't
> prevent it from
> being output, it prevents it from being rendered on-screen.
>
> You might wish to print to separate .ps files, then re-join
> the ones you
> want with something like "psjoin" (or other
> various scripts you can find
> with Google).
Sure, thanks so much,
Eduardo.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --
> Peter Clifton
>
> Electrical Engineering Division,
> Engineering Department,
> University of Cambridge,
> 9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
> Cambridge
> CB3 0FA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
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