gnupic: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
Subject:
Re: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
From:
####@####.#### (Linas Vepstas)
Date:
16 Apr 2002 01:05:02 -0000
Message-Id: <20020416005645.GA26908@backlot.linas.org>
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:27:26PM -0400, Jesse Lackey was heard to remark:
> Hi all ... I'm sure some of you out there do schematic capture & pcb
> layout work, I'd like to find something free or cheap (like, $50 for the
> unemployed hobbyist) under linux. I'm using the free version of eagle
> (www.cadsoftusa) but the free version is fairly limited and the full
> version is $300 for schematic plus $300 for board work.
>
> I downloaded xcircuit, haven't given it more than 5 minutes tho.
gEDA http://www.geda.seul.org/
is good at schematic capture; but it hasa nasty user interface.
oregano http://oregano.codefactory.se/
has a great user interface, but its young, and not currently maintained.
Didn't export netlists, either.
(or something like that)
(does have spice interfaces)
PCB http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
does pcb layout, but I was unable to get it to import the netlists that
geda exported :-(
both geda and pcb suffer from having archaic interfaces, making them
much much harder to use than it should be. Feature-wise, they *seem*
not bad.
--linas
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