Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Gatliff wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
>> 1. pcb is not the only layout tool gEDA supports.
>>   
> 
> Can you suggest some others?
>

there are a huge number of gnetlist backends.  some for layout, some for 
simulation, some for information.

But one example is PADS.  At one time (perhaps still) a pads schematic 
license cost extra over the layout license.  I've been in a situation 
where I needed to drive a pads layout and gschem worked quite easily for 
that.  Thats why the pads_backannotate script comes with gEDA.

Why would you do this today?  Maybe you have a contract layout person 
who uses pads, maybe you have a large vetted footprint library in pads 
in house, maybe political pressures dictate it.  In any event, its a 
nice feature.

-Dan


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