Re: gEDA-user: Commercial CAD, land pattern generators report

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Paddock wrote:
>    > a 10000 part library operating a layout service bureau
>    Take a look at <[1]http://wikicomponents.com> "The worlds first and
>    only truly open source for 2D and 3D PCB component package, part and
>    electrical device data". 

>    I corresponded with Dino Ditta, the person behind the site, when it
>    first opened.

>    He was open to having KiCAD and PCB symbols posted there.  Maybe we
>    could get behind his 3D effort rather than DXF?

After giving it a quick read yesterday, I like Bryan Bishop's SKDB idea
better.  His concept is a package manager for 3D and BOM data used to make
things with FOSS tools.  The form of a package is not very rigid -- he wants
to use what is out there, but organize it some.  If there is a way to get the data
ready to feed to a tool, he wants the format to go that far.

So for gEDA purposes, since we have no formal project packages, "getting"
a design would likely be getting a project dir to unzip, along with
the libraries used and gschemrc and pcb settings needed to modify it.

Is there a way to change settings for pcb without using the ~/.pcb dir
and only use ./ defined settings?

John
--
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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