Re: gEDA-user: Best way to learn PCB

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:31 +0200, michalwd1979 wrote:
> Hello,
> I really like gEDA idea and I have already set up my first project using it. I haven't problems with gshcem/gnetlist/gattrib - good documentation/tutorials and examples. There are always some hacks, but generally everything worked for me. 
> Now it is for a pcb design and my troubles starts. Official PCB manual is rather outdated, tutorials says very little about configuration of PCB and so on.
> Can You give me some ideas how to learn PCB in a effective way? I'm the kind of person that wants to have everything well configured before starting real work. However now I was able to set colors and I'm still not sure if I set up layers correctly. Creating my own footprints is the next task that I still can not do right. And I red official manual and some tutorials. Am I so stupid? Or just started learning PCB in wrong way...

DJ wrote a getting started guide recently:

http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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