On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:43:08 PM andy pugh did opine: > > > On 12 January 2012 07:22, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > Have you tried DesignSpark under Wine? > > Though gEDA might be a better bet, being native Linux. (I have never > > tried it) > > I have looked at gEDA and it shows promise, but it needs to grow some std > method of sizing the parts to an agreed upon std measurement method. When > the parts library is 100% contributor generated, no two parts seem to be > drawn to the same scale or orientation.
If one can use it often enough to keep current, maybe once a week, I find gEDA much easier to use than Eagle. Eagle has an extensive library, but I suspect that is because it takes a PhD in Eagle to create them, so an interested party made sure the popular symbols were available. To me, gEDA makes symbol creation easy enough to just make them as needed. I do miss having rules of thumb for pleasing and useful symbols, but I've been able to make mine good enough for who they are for. Plus one can place and rotate the symbol and connected text on the fly, which from my experience Eagle doesn't do. I haven't made any circuit board g-code using gEDA, so I can't speak to that. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
