On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: >> 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 >> > Has anybody tried the Visolate software or pcb2gcode utilities? > Visolate is a gui java program for converting gerber files to gcode and > pcb2gcode is a command line utility that does the same.
I use pcb2gcode with gEDA files without any problems Very good utility, easy to use 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
