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

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