On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: > 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 <ghesk...@wdtv.com> 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.
Like you I tried several circuit board design tools and settled on gEDA suite Easy to learn, very configurable, and lots of symbols at www.gedasymbols.org I have made a few boards, some using isolation engraving and some (I really like) using my mill to hold a sharpie pen to draw the traces and remove the excess copper with hcl and hydrogen peroxide Then wash off the ink with a solvent Cheap and I get the hcl just around the corner Also you can flip the board over and use the mill and sharpie the draw the silk mask Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
