Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-27 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Look up and use xgsch2pcb. Everything else is too complex for beginners. > Emphasis on the "x" at the first letter. Installed and using it :-) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.o

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-27 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 27.07.2011 um 15:49 schrieb Colin D Bennett: However, I want to know how clicking File | Import Schematics is “too complex for beginners”. Perhaps I still had this multi-page tutorial in mind and forgot about this relative recent function. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-27 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:28:21 +0200 Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 26.07.2011 um 07:33 schrieb bsali...@gmail.com: > > > 1. Schematic & board are decoupled so any changes to schematic need > > to be re-synced to the board. I haven't figured out the way yet. > > Look up and use xgsch2pcb. Everything e

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-27 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 26.07.2011 um 07:33 schrieb bsali...@gmail.com: 1. Schematic & board are decoupled so any changes to schematic need to be re-synced to the board. I haven't figured out the way yet. Look up and use xgsch2pcb. Everything else is too complex for beginners. Emphasis on the "x" at the first l

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread John Doty
On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:33 PM, bsali...@gmail.com wrote: > I would like to know any functional (not monetary) advantages of gEDA > over eagle, I assume that there are many. gEDA can export netlists to many tools (including Eagle), not just pcb. These include simulators like SPICE and gnucap. It

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
bsali...@gmail.com wrote: > Couple of days back I was able to create a test schematic on gschem > but it was not obvious to transfer the schematic to PCB. I guess it > will take time to learn. > > So far I made a few observations comparing eagle: > > 1. Schematic & board are decoupled so any cha

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:33:11 -0700 "bsali...@gmail.com" wrote: > Thanks for the detailed steps Colin. > > Sorry I was not clear I was looking to migrate as a user. Although I > have a license for eagle but sometime get limited by the number of > schematic sheets. So far I haven't reached max boa

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Hi Abhijit, I looked at your site. Your tutorial document is pretty good. Regards, Chetan Bhargava On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: >   Recently I wrote a small script to automate some of the things needed >   to be done after the gEDA tools are installed: >   such a

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-26 Thread bsali...@gmail.com
Thanks for the detailed steps Colin. Sorry I was not clear I was looking to migrate as a user. Although I have a license for eagle but sometime get limited by the number of schematic sheets. So far I haven't reached max board size. I have moderately large customized libraries on eagle. I use git w

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-25 Thread Abhijit Kshirsagar
Recently I wrote a small script to automate some of the things needed to be done after the gEDA tools are installed: such as setting up per-user symbols and footprint directories; and adding these to the gafrc and gschemrc files, etc... The script (Setup_gEDA.sh) is well commented an

Re: gEDA-user: Migration form eagle to gEDA

2011-07-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:17:39 -0700 "bsali...@gmail.com" wrote: > I guess that his question might have been asked before but is there > any howto or tutorial to migrate from Eagle to gEDA? > I tried Google searches but no meaningful information has been found. Do you mean migration of particular