X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Authenticated-User: n1qgcwm.myfairpoint.net Message-ID: <562A30FC.4020605@myfairpoint.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:07:08 -0400 From: "wayne mcdanolds (n1qgcwm AT myfairpoint DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile References: <1042003D-82E2-40F0-AB60-8186580C46AD AT noqsi DOT com> <34B17816-9EA5-45FD-BFB4-9D623A8D3D87 AT noqsi DOT com> <201510210954 DOT 46552 DOT ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net> <73ED29DA-968B-4675-9B00-125E03683C9B AT noqsi DOT com> <201510220112 DOT t9M1Ccfq013731 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <201510220136 DOT t9M1a5Uw015222 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20151022090310 DOT d3dc512da6760471f9777706 AT gmail DOT com> <20151022151758 DOT 20940ae1d0e4ca1a3ae37c21 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20151022151758.20940ae1d0e4ca1a3ae37c21@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.562A310C.02D4,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=AOFjIcgI c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=gr6mL/owS70+oydNAJ/rIg==:117 a=gr6mL/owS70+oydNAJ/rIg==:17 a=g0qM3YM6AAAA:8 a=1jMIAcbQAAAA:8 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=Mj1Xp5F7AAAA:8 a=DYaiXi9-c-v2owuUVIQA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com On 10/22/2015 09:17 AM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:00:51 -0400 > "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Nicklas Karlsson >> (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] >> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:36 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Would you really do it that way or would you have two different nets >>>>>> that meet in a specific way? >>>>> >>>>> It's amazing how "obvious" it is to just put in an AGND and a DGND >>>>> symbol and connect them together... >>>> >>>> I can't tell if you like this idea or are mocking it. Disadvantage of email. >>>> Ether way mixing the two netnames one schematic would enable a lot of >>>> ambiguity about where the two meet. Typically when I two grounds and >>>> they are connected it is in a very controlled way. >>> >>> Symbolically it could be deon with an n pin zero ohm resistor or other symbol. In layout a special footprint with one connection point could do the trick. >> >> That is visually misleading. It should just be lines meeting at a dot. > > Yes you are right, it will be better. > > Nicklas Karlsson > > Hello All, If you will look at gEDA version I have 1.6.2.20110115 which is installed on Debian 7.5 on an emachines with an AMD Athlon 2600+ processor and 744mb of ram. I would like to suggest that you open gschem schematic capture, "click on Add, click on Component, click on power rails, click on gnd-1.sym or gnd-2.sym symbols or on, IEC60417, click on chassis.sym." I have gEDA ver 1.6.2.20110115 on my system. -- 73 N1QGC Wayne