Re: gEDA-user: What is the standard of gEDA tools and PCB

[Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>]

chimin yen wrote:

> All of the necessary pieces are there for PCB design.
> What we need for now is to upgrade PCB tool to GTK+
> GUI, and integrate all the pieces in one environment.
>
> Hope this comes true sometime soon.
>
> Chimin Yen
>
> --- Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com> wrote:
>  
> > Dave McGuire wrote:
> >
> >    
> > > On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 04:05 AM, Rui Cheang
> > >      
> > wrote:
> >    
> > > > Thanks!  and When can i start to generate the
> > > >        
> > Gerber.  I have pressed 
> >    
> > > > the rat net and rip it all.  So it finished? 
> > > >        
> > Further steps are 
> >    
> > > > needed in order to use Gerber?  Gerber is a
> > > >        
> > program to read the 
> >    
> > > > layout, it is not a file format, am i right?
> > > >        
> > >  No, Gerber is a file format.
> > >
> > >     -Dave
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dave McGuire                "They live deeply,
> > >      
> > these vagabonds."
> >    
> > > St. Petersburg, FL                           
> > >      
> > -Goro
> >    
> > >      
> > For PCB
> >
> > File->print layout
> >
> > then select the device driver    Gerber/RS-274X
> >
> > then hit the ok button
> >
> >
> > the greber files can be viewed with the geda program
> > gerbv
> >
> >
> > Steve M.
> >
> >    
>
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Well that would be nice but for those of us who are x windows users on 
unix is isn't a requirement.

I would rather see a lot of new features added to PCB.

And every time I talk to a board vendor my wish list for pcb 
capabilities grows.

Steve M.