<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <h1 class="sectionedit1830"><a name="this_page_should_include_user_experiences_with_the_geda_suite" id="this_page_should_include_user_experiences_with_the_geda_suite">This page should include user experiences with the gEDA suite.</a></h1> <div class="level1"> </div> <!-- EDIT1830 SECTION "This page should include user experiences with the gEDA suite." [1-78] --> <h2 class="sectionedit1831"><a name="paul_csanyi_s_experiences" id="paul_csanyi_s_experiences">Paul Csanyi's experiences</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Hello! </p> <p> My name is Paul Csanyi. I am a technics teacher in an elementary school. </p> <p> I use mainly Debian GNU/Linux operating system. I have installed the gEDA suite on my system. </p> <p> I am a newbe to the electronics and to the gEDA tools, but the electronics is so interesting theme to me so I decide to study gEDA tools and use it for making some simple projects. With these simple projects I intend to teach my pupils to fundamentals of electronics. </p> <p> I tried first the gEDA <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym>, but then I red that it is better to use gEDA from the command line, so I did so. </p> <p> I have tried several times gEDA tools to make some simple projects. Up to the present I learn how to use gschem tool very easily. I made schematics easily. </p> <p> But then I need a symbol that I can't find in gschem library, so I decide to make it. I follow the tutorial <a href="http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:tragesym_tutorial" class="urlextern" title="http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:tragesym_tutorial" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:tragesym_tutorial</a> and ask some questions on the mailing list geda-user (The list is not active anymore - check <a href="geda-mailinglists.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-mailinglists.html">archives and current lists</a>). </p> <p> Here in this Wiki I want to share some of mine experiences with the gEDA suite. I want to share some addons to the tragesym tutorial. </p> <p> If these thoughts are specific for the Debian system, like the place of the tragesym_template.gz file, then I shall write a note of this. </p> <p> I made a symbol for the 36-pin Centronics connector. </p> <p> From the “Tragesym tutorial”: </p> <p> <strong>Step1: Open a tragesym template file</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> open xterm window: eg.: urxvt</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> cp /usr/share/doc/geda-doc/wiki/_media/tragesym_template.gz ~/gEDA/gaf/ <br/> </div> </li> </ul> <p> <em class="u">Note: This is Debian specific.</em> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> cd gEDA/gaf/</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> gzip -d tragesym_template.gz</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Open in OpenOffice the tragesym_template file. I get OpenOffice Calc with opened file. “Set the type, style and position column to the most common value.” I have saved this <strong>tragesym_template</strong> file for the future use.</div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Step2: Download the part data sheet and find the pin list</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Step3: Copy the pin list into an editor and prepare it</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li">I have tried Midnight Commander as editor, but XEmacs is much better for this. I make Tabs between columns. From XEmacs I copy the lines into OpenOffice Calc.</div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Step4: Insert all missing data into the spreadsheet</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li">In OpenOffice Calc I inserted all missing data. The label of the Pin 36 is 'IN SEL' and have a negation overbar, so I write in the approppriate column: \_IN\ SEL\_ Note that here is a space between 'IN' and 'SEL'. Maybe it is trivial, but if one have a space in the label this works.</div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Step5: Export the spreadsheet into a tab seperated text file</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li">In OpenOffice I did File / Save As / Filename: tragesym_template-for_36-pin_centronics_connector / Filetype: Structural text (CSV) (.csv) / Filter setup: on / Save / Text boundary: empty</div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Step6: execute tragesym and create the symbol</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li">tragesym tragesym_template-for_36-pin_centronics_connector 36-pin-centronics.sch</div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Step7: check the result with gschem and do some artwork</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li">“Now we have a complete symbol.”</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li">“You can copy the symbol to your local symbol library e.g. /usr/local/share/gEDA/sym/local/ and use it.” <br/> </div> </li> </ul> <p> cp 36-pin_centronics.sch /home/username/gEDA/gaf/gschem-sym/connectors/36-pin_centronics.sym </p> <p> This symbol can be viewed here: <br/> <a href="http://www.mediamax.com/paul_csanyi/Hosted/gschem_schems/36-pin-centronics.sym" class="urlextern" title="http://www.mediamax.com/paul_csanyi/Hosted/gschem_schems/36-pin-centronics.sym" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediamax.com/paul_csanyi/Hosted/gschem_schems/36-pin-centronics.sym</a> (dead link) </p> <p> In this symbol I put the footprint: “SUBD_FEMALE_LAY 25” but this is not the approppriate footprint for the 36-pin Centronics connector. I tried to find footprint for the 36-pin Centronics connector here: <a href="http://www.gedasymbols.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.gedasymbols.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gedasymbols.org/</a>, but with no success. </p> <p> I think I gone to make one 36-pin Centronics footprint soon, using “PCB Footprint Guide” here:<br/> <a href="http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprints" class="urlextern" title="http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprints" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprints</a>. <img src="images/smileys/icon_smile.gif" align="middle" alt=":-)" /> </p> </div> <!-- EDIT1831 SECTION "Paul Csanyi's experiences" [79-] --></body> </html>
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