gnupic: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
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RE: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
From:
"Jeff Knickelbein" ####@####.####
Date:
16 Apr 2002 14:48:42 -0000
Message-Id: <1E354700654661418593A0D6B5A9D4100564AF@mail.azisa.co.za>
I only found out afterwards that is works on Linux as well. What limitations are there with the freeware Eagle? I haven't used it much, but friends of mine rave about it, especially since it's free.
Quite often I have found with CAD packages like this, you have get to know the package well to get around the "limitations". I don't think there is a perfect CAD package, the one you know the well, is the best one to use. I know OrCAD fairly well, probably because I've used since at University. But it also has bugs / limitations.
Regards
Jeff Knickelbein
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Glenn ####@####.####
Sent: Tuesday, 16 April, 2002 4:27 PM
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Subject: RE: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
Why use it with WINE when there's a Linux version right there on the
download page?
Besides, the guy says he's ALREADY using Eagle.
-Randy Glenn
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Knickelbein ####@####.####
Sent: April 16, 2002 4:18 AM
To: Linas Vepstas; Jesse Lackey
Cc: ####@####.####
Subject: RE: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
You could also use Eagle Layout, although it is a Windows program. You could
around that by using WINE. It's freeware for non-commercial use
http://www.eaglepcb.dk/
Regards
Jeff Knickelbein
-----Original Message-----
From: Linas Vepstas ####@####.####
Sent: Tuesday, 16 April, 2002 2:57 AM
To: Jesse Lackey
Cc: ####@####.####
Subject: Re: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
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
