On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > 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 > I'll take a look, it's complete kit is installing on that shiny new 250Gb drive now.
And still no opto-interrupter devices with a logic output. But generally I get the impression that its much improved. IIRC it was gerbview that had the export in various formats option before, but I don't find that option now. Memory, tain't always what it once was. :( 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> Somewhere in suburban Honolulu, an unemployed bellhop is whipping up a batch of illegal psilocybin chop suey!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
