If you are looking at alternative EDA software going forward, I would suggest you consider KiCad seriously - it looks like pretty much everyone who is not using Altium is moving towards KiCad these days, and my experience with it is absolutely excellent.
My 2 cents ! :) Ed On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> wrote: > Stewart Campbell <[email protected]> writes: > > > Which gplEDA tools are used for the schematic and PCB designs > > please? There seems to be a number of tools available at > > http://www.gpleda.org and I was wondering which ones you specifically > > use for the Altus Metrum products please? > > We currently use gschem for schematics and pcb for the board designs. > > If you just want to look at our designs, I try to post PDF files of the > schematics and board artwork for each product at altusmetrum.org. If > you find something missing, let me know and I'll correct that. > > If you want to do more than just look at existing designs, the easy > thing to do is install Debian on something (virtual machine, even), and > then install the 'geda' and 'pcb' packages. > > To work with our designs, you need to check out both the hw/<product> > repository *and* the hw/altusmetrum repository from git.gag.com. The > altusmetrum repository has all the part information used by our > designs... Keith and I have a "preferred parts" database and use only > schematic symbols and pcb footprints that we've vetted ourselves. > > Also, note that I'm currently investigating lepton-eda (a fork of the > geda-gaf suite that appears to be better maintained now) as a possible > replacement for gschem for schematic capture, and we're starting to move > towards pcb-rnd for new board designs (it started as a fork of pcb but > is now much more capable). I maintain the pcb-rnd package for Debian > and have built lepton-eda packages, but am waiting for the next upstream > release of lepton-eda (maybe this weekend) before uploading those to > Debian. > > Bdale > > _______________________________________________ > altusmetrum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum > >
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