Re: gEDA-user: Kicad

[Dominique Laigle <dlaigle@xxxxx>]

Florian Steiper
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:26:58 -0800

Dan McMahill wrote:


   On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:44:19PM +0200, Florian Steiper wrote:


Hello


       Did anybody try/heard of Kicad ? I stumbled across the program
       at OpenCollector and it seems to be doing pretty much the same
       as the Geda suite, only thing is that all the documentation is
       in french :)

Here is the Url: http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/




wow.  It seems, from the screen shots, to be a relatively complete
system at least for creating schematics and a corresponding board
layout.  I haven't tried to compile it yet.  I wonder how long
they've been working on this.  I don't speak any french so I'm
mostly going by the pictures.


-Dan



An englidh version of the site was recently born here:
http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/kicad/LogicielKicad.html#English
I just tryed it (Linux with wxWidgets compiled for GTK2) and I must say 
that it is _very_  far in term of funtionalities.

KiCad has been developed for 14 years bye now. Development started when 
the first 32 bits C++ GPL'd compilers appeared - before Linux though :-)
and in KiCad is every thing GPL, even the 3D modeller for the device shape.

An english documentation is on-going and I wonder whether it shouldn't 
be worth to switch into KiCad and go ahead for developing some more 
device models in libraries instead of almost rebuilding everything again 
from scratch ? Has anyone an experience ?

/Dom