Kirk, You might have a look at http://www.delorie.com/ DJ Delorie of DJGPP fame if you will, has been doing some programming work on PCB. He also frequents the Yahoo Homebrew_PCBs group. Might be a good person to start up a conversation with about PCB. It appears he does a lot of heat transfer making of PCBs maybe share the values of EMC2 and CNC PCB milling.
On 12/29/2010 9:29 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 10:18 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> Is gEDA the best Linux based alternative to Eagle? > I chose to look into gEDA because it has some HAL work done for it. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?HalSchematicsUsingGschem > > After a couple of days playing with gEDA. I am able to draw schematics > and started laying out boards. One key thing is that I can now make my > own symbols without enormous grief. The snap tool doesn't always work > well, but there should be a technique I can learn to deal with that. The > symbols don't look as nice as Eagle's, but now that I can make my own I > may be able to fix that. Changing symbols on the fly is a big plus, most > every aspect can be changed, but this allows one to veer from standards > at will. The user interface is old school Unix where there is a mix of > applications that make up the whole. Invoking applications is best done > with the command line. This allows for more work flow customization for > some, is much less convenient for others. I like the more open source > feel of gEDA. I haven't looked into Kicad, because it looks like gEDA > will do what I need. -- Gary Fiber K8IZ GROL PG-19-6691 with shipboard radar endorsement Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
