Re: gEDA-user: Has anyone in this group seriously used KiCAD?

[Atommann <atommann@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/8/20 Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:55:31 -0400
> John Hudak <jjhudak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Pros/cons?  and please, no philosphy about integrated vs independent
>> tools...I am interested in aspects such as what things work? what
>> doesn't? user experiences such as strengths and weakness (again
>> actual/functional and not philosophy)
>
> I've not “seriously” used it, but I was just today frustrated when I
> tried to download and open the Maple Mini KiCad project ([1]) and my
> KiCad version (from Ubuntu 11.04 repositories) says the layout and
> schematic files are unrecognized types.
>
> More specifically, trying to open the .brd file says “Unknown file
> type” and trying to open the schematic says “<file>.sch is NOT an
> EESchema file!”  See screenshot at [2].
>
> A version incompatibility?  Maybe, but you would hope KiCad would at
> least tell the user that the file is the wrong version, rather than such
> cryptic errors.  User error?  Maybe, but how hard can it be to open a
> board file or schematic file?

The Maple Mini was not designed with KiCAD, it was designed with Eagle.

-- 
Best regards,
Atommann


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