I think gEDA has some big warts compared to the commercial offerings. For me, the big difference is that you can work around those problems if you're technically savvy. I've only used gshem+pcb to make a few boards, and I've already spent a lot of time working on tools to assist me. A symbol generator, three plugins for PCB, several patches. I spent a lot of time writing a program to make box symbols a way a liked, but then I used it to make symbols for 208, 80 and 44 pin parts and immediately recovered the time I would have spent making those symbols in a GUI in Eagle. I was bitten by the PS HID's mirror options, but at least the output is in human-readable PostScript which I can easily hack to tile the boards and convert to PDF.
-- Ben Jackson AD7GD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ben.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
