Re: gEDA-user: CERN goes for KiCAD

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colin D Bennett
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:43 PM
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: CERN goes for KiCAD
> 
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:16:23 +0200
> Rubén Gómez Antolí <lobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is something how Kde us Gnome?
> > 
> > Because after of years of desktop wars, both proyects colaborate in 
> > base
> > (freedesktop) and expand his own style.
> > 
> > There are something to learn in our own free software history?
> 
> That's a good point.  Where could things be best shared 
> between KiCad and gEDA?
> 

Footprint editor ? 

https://github.com/bert/fped

Fped lives in Ubuntu and Fedora, and maybe other distros, with support for
KiCAD users.

Anyone interested in a parametric footprint editor with support for pcb ?

Just clone, add code and stuff, and send patches to here.

This way we can have common files for interoptable footprints.

> While it would be nice to share a common schematic/PCB layout 
> file format, that seems difficult given the different 
> approaches taken by both tools.
> 
> My initial thought is that the biggest value-to-effort ratio 
> would be from being able realized by being able to share 
> symbols and footprints between the tools.  Of course even 
> this has some serious
> difficulties: consider all the special attributes and such 
> required for proper gschem symbols.  Perhaps gschem's format 
> is detailed enough that KiCad symbol information could be 
> inferred from it.
> Footprints might be simpler to share since there seem to be 
> fewer tool-specific details needed (just defining copper 
> areas/pads, pins/holes, solder mask and paste, silk screen lines).
> 
> Regards,
> Colin
> 
> 


Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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