Ales Hvezda wrote: > [snip] >> P.S.: What I wrote in the previous post applies even more if you are >> asked to check someone else's layout. Often all you can use is the >> Gerber file set because that person has used a CAD program you do not >> have at your disposal. >> > > And just to be fair, I'll ask the same question I just asked in a > different thread: > > If you really must have this feature, have you considered paying > somebody (either one of the gerbv developers or an independent > consultant) to generate a patch to add this functionality to your copy > of gerbv? I would expect that you will probably have to pay an > industry standard consulting rate to get something non-trivial like > this developed (integration into gerbv mainline is probably more > complicated since the gerbv developers would have to agree with all > the changes). > > And before we all go into flame mode, please read: > > http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq#tool_xxx_is_missing_critical_feature_yyy_what_can_i_do > > Okay, I'm done pointing out the obvious (today), > > -Ales > > PS. I don't speak for the gerbv developers either. :-) >
I've read that in the other thread :-) Yes, paying for mods is one option and one can, for example, hire folks from a university for that. Back when I studied for my masters I was always looking to make a buck. But hardware design in my case. Anyhow, it was just a suggestion for the Linux community. In the MS-Windows world you can already have Gerber viewers with OCR. In most cases that will be the non-share versions though, usually around $500. For a business that would be better than writing one from scratch. While I've got your attention I wanted to express my thanks for starting this whole gEDA project. Currently I am still using Cadsoft but I wanted to try it out and it looks quite good. But it'll be a long way for me because first I have to learn the ropes of Linux. Heck, currently I don't even know where the symbol files would be for backup purposes. Feels like learning a new language but I've done that before, so should be feasible ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
