Re: gEDA-user: gEDA vs commercial product

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> I'm very sad to say that after about a year of work with gEDA I have had 
> to switch to a commercial alternative. Not that I like it better; on the 
> contrary, I'm much less productive with my new 4500€ CAD than with 
> gschem, but I simply could no longer do without the additional features 
> of the other product. Two above all: a complete IEC symbols library for 
> automation and distribution systems, and support for multipage projects. 

If you were to draw the symbols, that could solve the first problem!

As far as multipage projects....  Do you mean a flat hierarchy but with 
multiple pages?  gschem has supported that for a long time.  As far as 
hierarchy, there are ways to get some hierarchy support for some 
backends but I'll agree hierarchy support is weak.

> There are other features which I also consider paramount, which gEDA, to 
> my knowledge, lacks: the automatic production of cabling diagrams and 
> loop diagrams, and support physical layouts of the components referenced 
> in the topological diagram.

Sorry for being daft here, but what exactly is a cabling diagram and a 
loop diagram?

-Dan



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