On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:48:50 PM Kirk Wallace did opine: > 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.
AFAIK, gEDA hasn't grown a g-code converter. OTOH I haven't looked in about a year, but I am sure that if it had, somebody here would have waxed poetic about it. :) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -- Emo Phillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
