DJ Delorie wrote: >> Sure, but I don't think that's what gEDA was meant to do. > > But geda *was* meant to be able to hook in other sources of data. > >> Ok, if gEDA is geared towards ASIC/FPGA that's different. > > It's not - *his* work is geared towards it, and he had a way to make > geda work smoothly with his data needs. Each geda user is going to > have a preferred way of doing things, and geda needs to be amenable to > all of those. *Some* will be defaults, but others may need some > custom geda setups to flow smoothly. > >> Wow. With CAD? My first CAD exposure was Racal-Redac on a VAX but being > > Oh crap, now we're reminiscing. 20 years ago I started with Data > General's internal CAD system on D470C terminals. A few years later > we switched to Cadstar, and a long hiatus later, I'm using gEDA. >
I started out with Futurenet Dash-2 in 1986, then Dash-4, then self-employed with Orcad as my tool, later through several versions of that and a few years ago switched to Eagle. That's what I am using right now until I find something better. Eagle won't handle hierarchies, other than that it is nearly ideal. >> young I could only get after-midnight time slots so I resorted to vellum >> and ink pens. > > mmm... pens, stickers, and FeCl from Radio Shack. That was about 30 > years ago for me. I still have some of the stickers, too. > I always keep a stash of large vellum pads. Clearprint 1000HP, the good stuff from California. >> Again, I don't want it to cater to me. I might never use gschem, >> just wanted to give feedback. > > What about PCB, though? That runs on Linux/Mac/Windows too. > In my case nearly all layouts are done by a layouter. The lone exception would be a super-critical RF or switcher designs where I lay out the hot stuff and send that to the layouter to tell him how I want that area done. Currently he uses PADS. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
