On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:20:10AM +0000, Peter Brett wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:22, John Doty wrote: > > http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/02/24/222212.shtml > > > > I suspect this person's hangup is autorouting PCB's. I can't really > > comment because I don't use pcb, and don't know Eagle (although I > > have successfully exported two gEDA projects to PH70, an obscure PCB > > design tool used by a favored contractor of one of my customers). > > > > LOL. Apparently gEDA is too incomplete to replace Eagle.
He seems to be a newbie, doesn't judge by technical abilities, but rather technical abilities filtered through usability. And that is better for Eagle and Orcad than gEDA I think. Simply put, he didn't know all the shortcuts, tricks, quirks and peculiarities of gEDA. CL< > > They were complete enough (and better than) OrCAD for me, and that costs just > as much or more than Eagle! > > Peter > > -- > Quake II build tools: http://peter-b.co.uk/ > > v2sw6YShw7$ln5pr6ck3ma8u6/8Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Eb8Aen5+6g6Pa2Xs5MSr5p4 > hackerkey.com
