Michael Sokolov wrote:
Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
vi layout.pcb
pcb -x gerber layout.pcb
Thank you, Dan, for expressing it so succinctly! This is exactly how I
use PCB at the present moment. Of course it would be just a tad too
difficult to do the whole layout this way, but that's exactly why I plan
on hiring someone else to do the layout for me while insisting that it
be done in GNU PCB rather than some proprietary package: while the
layout itself is a job too visual for my ASCII brain and it's just
simply a job that I feel someone else would do gazillion times better
than me, having it in the text-based PCB format would allow me to do any
necessary minor tweaks afterward by the very method that Dan has just
demonstrated.
you know.... I was mostly kidding... except that I did the layout of a
patch antenna with a microstrip quadrature network on it in almost this
way. I wrote an awk program that spit out the layout. Unfortunately
this was prior to my PCB days and it was for a *cough* commercial
*cough* *cough* windows based tool. But in that case it really was
easier to describe exactly what I wanted in code.
If/when we expand the footprint capability to include polygons, I could
easily see wanting to do that again.
awk -f spiral.awk inductance=5e-9 > ind1.fp
mmmmmm awk.
-Dan
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