Re: gEDA-user: Professional PCB help using geda?

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ,

I disagree. My last board a vry complex board could have been done by
PCB but I didn't have a consultant on hand to do the work for me, well
one who worked in PCB.

I think most board designers could care less which cad tool is used as
long as the board can be layed out in an economically correct manor.

Economically, for example, how many board designers would be happy to
pay 500.00 usd less for a layout service because the design shop didn't
have to charge them a percentage of the license fees? Take a month to do
a complex board? six grand a year for the use of the tool. Yes these count.

Steve Meier

DJ Delorie wrote:
> I think that a gEDA consulting thing could start small, though - doing
> layout for hobby boards and such.  Consider the small project, where
> the customer has come up with a schematic and knows which parts they
> want.  They could hire someone to create all the footprints, lay out a
> simple board (2- or 4-layer), and produce a BOM.
>
> It certainly adds another answer to the "how do I create footprints?"
> question ;-)
>
> As for 10-layer boards and high speed signals, I think anyone with
> enough experience to do that is already going to have a set of tools
> they'd be comfortable with, and it's hard to convince people to change
> - there's very little benefit to it.
>
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