gEDA-user: Little lost with netlist and gsch2pcb

[Barry Demers <sdad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Stefan Salewski, thanks for your input.  using xgsch2pcb was quite
   straight forward actually.  I had installed the gEDA suite using
   Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager and there it was on my desktop.
   Can't get much simpler than that!  After reading the posts, and
   noticing the "x" on the title bar, I decided that the command line
   package was worth investigating.  I do plan to spend some time with
   the gui version however to see if I can figure out how to better use
   it.
   I have now played a little with PCB and, well, I guess that I need to
   spend more time with it.  I am tempted at this point to use a standard
   cad package for my layouts.  I really like gschem and using gsch2pcb
   to generate a net list is fantastic, love it.  While on PCB, however,
   I spent all kinds of time trying to correct lines that went in wrong
   direction, or wouldn't connect.  The rat's nest was incorrectly drawn,
   didn't have editing features that I thought would help me, layer
   control gave bizarre results.  I do see a great potential, but in the
   meantime, with all the backtracking I ended up doing, using a
   mechanical cad package along with gschem and gsch2pcb  may well be my
   solution , at least until a garner a bit more time with PCB.
   --
   Thank you,
   Barry


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