Stefan Salewski, thanks for your input. using xgsch2pcb was quite straight forward actually. I had installed the gEDA suite using Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager and there it was on my desktop. Can't get much simpler than that! After reading the posts, and noticing the "x" on the title bar, I decided that the command line package was worth investigating. I do plan to spend some time with the gui version however to see if I can figure out how to better use it. I have now played a little with PCB and, well, I guess that I need to spend more time with it. I am tempted at this point to use a standard cad package for my layouts. I really like gschem and using gsch2pcb to generate a net list is fantastic, love it. While on PCB, however, I spent all kinds of time trying to correct lines that went in wrong direction, or wouldn't connect. The rat's nest was incorrectly drawn, didn't have editing features that I thought would help me, layer control gave bizarre results. I do see a great potential, but in the meantime, with all the backtracking I ended up doing, using a mechanical cad package along with gschem and gsch2pcb may well be my solution , at least until a garner a bit more time with PCB. -- Thank you, Barry
_______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
