Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and pcb status and minigration from Eagle

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:09 +0900, Torsten Wagner wrote:

> Are there any shortcuts or limitations ?
> How mature and stable are the suite yet ? 
> Can it be really considered for serious work ?
> 

Stable enough and it can be used for serious work.

See the projects from

http://www.gpleda.org/links.html#projects

i.e. my large DSO board:

http://www.ssalewski.de/DAD.html.en

Of course, using a commercial tool may reduce the time you need for a
project -- if you have all your symbols from shipped library...

And of course gEDA-tools can not compete with 10.000$ tools from
Cadence/Mentor/OrCad.

Dead horse question: We have some very smart developers which do very
fine work. But most of them can not spend too much time for this
project. Donating to the Linux-Fund may push development. Inviting new
developers may be good, but this project is non trivial stuff, so stupid
and lazy programmers are not of much benefit.

KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is

> I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet.
> When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more
> "professional", so I chose gEDA/PCB. But KiCad and gEDA have make
> progress since that time. So I think KiCad can be used for production
> work now.
> 
> The main difference is, that KiCAD is available for Windows too, and
> that KiCad is more integrated. Some people like this integration very
> much. But the modular concept of gEDA makes it more flexible. (Some
> people makes ASIC design with gschem, we can netlist to commercial PCB
> programs, we can do simulation...) For casual users (doing a simple
> board on Saturday afternoon) KiCad may be the better solution. I think
I
> will stay with gEDA/PCB, but maybe in far future I will try to make a
> small project with KiCad.  

Best regards

Stefan Salewski




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