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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Valve / nixie symbols
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:51:39 +0100
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The default grid size is 100. The manual suggests pins with 300 
length. But this is just aesthetics. I for one find that pins at this 
size are kind of awkward. So I systematically use 100 sized pins. 

---<)kaimartin(>---  

Phil Taylor wrote:

> Iacob, for sch drawings to look right everyone uses a 300 (unit?) x
> 300 grid.  For an eleven (9) pin symbol it would get out of hand
> size wise to hit the grid.  You might simply position the pins on
> the grid (which would not be a circle) and internal-to-the-symbol
> create the round part.  It will involve changinging the grid to 10
> units, say, to draw its internals.  Shift the grid back to 100
> before translating to 0,0 and saving.  Picture an 8-pin octal relay
> socket with two columns of scew terminals down each side on the
> module and modify til your heart is content.
> 
> Phil Taylor
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Sabin Iacob
>> (iacobs AT m0n5t3r DOT info) [via
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
>> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I've been looking for instances of symbols for vacuum tubes /
>> nixies (building a nixie display thing), and can't find any.
>> 
>> Is it even possible to have pins rotated / have round bodied
>> symbols with pins on the circumference? I can always go for a
>> transistor-with-13-leads thing or for a box (like an IC), but I
>> find none ot the alternatives thrilling (they'd work for getting a
>> board done, as long as no one else sees the schematic, but it's an
>> eyesore).
>>