Timing Diagram Tool?

Well probably totally overkill - but free!

Download Altera Quartus web edition

and use the Waveform editor.

Icky

"Jim Thompson" ...

See the XWAVE font from Joseph Palmer:

Regards, Arie de Muynck

NICE! Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Now. A dumb question... do I just copy this to the \\Windows\\Fonts directory, or is some other step required?

...Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson"...

I think I just copied it into the folder that is shown when you follow Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Fonts but maybe it must also be registered.

See also:

Adding New Fonts

---------------- Windows supports TrueType fonts or fonts that are specially designed for Windows, and these fonts are available commercially. Some programs also include special fonts that are installed as part of the program installation. Additionally, printers frequently come with TrueType or special Windows fonts. Follow the directions that come with these products to install these fonts.

To manually install or re-install a font: 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. Type %windir%\\fonts, and then click OK. 3. On the File menu, click Install New Font. 4. In the Drives box, click the drive that has the floppy or CD-ROM that contains the fonts you want to add. If you are installing fonts from a floppy disk, this is typically drive A or drive B. If you are installing the fonts from a compact disc, your CD-ROM drive is typically drive D. Double-click the folder that contains the fonts. 5. Click the font you want to add. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each font. 6. Click to select the Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder check box. The Windows\\Fonts folder is where the fonts that are included with Windows are stored. 7. Click OK.

Note On Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you must be an administrator to add and remove fonts.

Regards, Arie de Muijnck

Arie's hint is great. But it'll be lots of typing. If it isn't for doc purposes but just for mutual understanding there is an easier way. This Saturday me and my layouter (with him being in Vermont) just could not get onto the same page with a weird kind of laser diode mounting (z-bend, then rotate a bit and lay flat over some discretes).

So I sketched it up, scanned that in and zipped it over. Tada! Problem solved, layout is now done. But the fab people haven't come back with a quote for hours now. Hope that doesn't spell trouble.

My Computer -> Control Panel-> Fonts and drag & drop the ttf file in, it should install.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I sketch on grid paper, photograph, and email. One of my customers jokingly asked me what CAD package I use, and I answered "Sharpie."

John

Didn't Bob Widlar call that his "Mexican Computer"?

I really like the scanner. Got myself one of those biz-hub style things and it sits within arms length from me. It's connected to the LAN. Sketch up, click the scan to email thingamagic on the PC, bzzzzt, click, click, click, done.

Agree. Except that I don't know what an eraser shield is. Do I have to feel dprived now?

Yep, it does that, too. Just have to hit another button and it copies. Faxes, scans, prints and copies at a pretty good clip. This has freed up a lot of space in my office plus I have better redundancy now. It has so many buttons that I just discovered a new one after over a year: It can scale copies. Yeehaw. Didn't know that.

An eraser shield is a small piece of stainless steel, about the size of a credit card and very (0.010" or so) thin. It has various size cutouts in the steel, some circles, some radiuses, some straight lines, some ! teardrops, etc.. You put the shield over the part you want to erase a tiny portion of and erase like hell without worry about erasing too much.

I've still got a working electric eraser (both plug-in and cordless) if anybody needs one. Otherwise they go to the engineering museum when I kick off.

Jim

Thanks for explaining. Didn't know that. But I could imagine that the sharp edges will increase the amount of eraser turds that go all over the place, where my wife says "look at the mess you made now".

I've never gone that high-tech :-)

It's handy effectively having a photocopier within reach too (scan directly to laser printer). I use it rarely, but it sure comes in handy when it's needed.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Nothing works like quadrille paper, pencil, eraser, ruler and eraser shield until you get the concept settled. Then, and only then, is CAD productive, IMHO.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

There's a lot to be said for sketching things freehand. Particularly if one is a visual/spatial thinker, it helps with the conceptualization process.

Some years ago, I was responsible for maintaining a rather complex engineering document management an configuration control system (built in house). All of the diagrams in my documentation were done by hand on quad ruled paper. From time to time, management required that an 'official' version be done by the CAD group, but I came to find out that the IT folks had taken to distributing copies of my drawings to the various support groups and shelving the CAD versions.

One (new) manager had requested that the CAD group produce an overview data flow diagram by combining all the individual diagram pages into a single sheet. It was about 36x48 inches with small (10pt) font labels and symbols. The story was that as soon as he saw the system he was to take responsibility for on one page, he quit. My drawings were 8.5 x 11 sheets with each sheet being the data flow or E-R for a single event (weekly backup, new version checkout, etc.) making the system a lot easier to comprehend.

...

What's that round thing in the top slot, a drop of solder flux?

Here's a photo of the kind of thing:

It's also an inexpensive source of small bits of SS shim stock. ;-)

Hmmm. speaking of solder, Digikey seems to have jacked up their prices of 63/37 Kester '44' to *double* that of Mouser ($28/lb rather than $14/lb). Seems a bit much.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Nagware (or $15) http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:T_jY7Cpjh3IJ:

Online tool http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:YwSnxzyGfioJ:

Free (technique for a spreadsheet that does graphics)

-- America: Land of the Free--if we watch the foolhearty like hawks

Normally that can be cured using On the Tools menu, click Customize. Click the Options tab. Select or clear the "List font names in their font" check box.

Also, when an administrator installs the font while a user is logged in, the user cannot use it (Office does not show it) until the user logs out and in again.

Regards, Arie de Muijck