Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:33:11PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:27 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> > pstoedit converts postscript to various formats.  So I suppose you could 
> > try pcb export to postscript and then pstoedit to produce dxf.  That 
> > said, there are always issues with file conversions and I suspect you're 
> > much better off letting pcb directly produce dxf.  But it may just work.
> 
> NB: The code being talked about is DXF -> PCB outline... not PCB->DXF.
> 
> It seems that we now have _three_ people who have independently written
> such a tool. I guess this suggests people are wishing to design boards
> which fit in a given mechanical envelope, as exported from a mech.-cad
> package.

In my case, it is just the opposite, I build the enclosure around
the constraints of the circuit (high frequency). I wanted to attach
a photo, but it's 1.7MB, which is a bit heavy for the mailing list,
I believe.

	Gabriel


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