No one cares, except your electric company. It was about 70 today so I didn't have to turn the air conditioning or the heat on.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
Funnily enough, due to certain constraints, I've been tempted to consider going back to SDT 3.21 just recently.
Graham
Hello Jim,
It was around 60F because we are above the clouds, usually. Inside it got up to 70F without any heat. The house is built in a passive energy use fashion so the tile floor catches the heat from the sun and acts as a natural masonry heater. In the summer you close the blinds until the sun stops shining into the windows. Then things are kept cool as long as the nights drop to below 60F and the blinds are opened at night.
Now it's raining and we fired up the wood stove because we'll have dinner guests tonight.
Sometimes we see the clouds rolling in from the Bay Area. Often they are about level with our deck and look rather spooky. You can sit in the sun and then within seconds you are engulfed in mist, can't even see the end of the deck. When our rottie mix was young he used to growl at the clouds to make them go away. Worked every single time.
Regards, Joerg
Are there any lists of the design tools it interfaces with? In particular, one of the biggest obstacles to changing toolsets is incompatibility of file formats. Apart from netlists (with are easy to work with), the only standard formats are output formats like pdf and gerber. If gEDA has tools for converting back and forth between different binary formats, then I'd love to hear about it.
Hello Win,
But it isn't power outage proof. So I use a mechanical one. Most of the time I just take grandpa's pocket knife and use that. It feels more manly, almost like making your own LAN cables.
I must confess that I have never seen an electric eraser.
Regards, Joerg
Hello David,
EDA tools mostly do not interface beyond the netlist format. IMHO this whole EDIF effort was a joke, many EDA companies seem unwilling to cooperate. So if they don't release their 'proprietary' formats those that want to cooperate cannot do so.
Incompatibility was my biggest obstacle when I switched to Cadsoft Eagle. But to me the price/performance ratio was much better than the competition and I took the plunge.
Regards, Joerg
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