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Subject: RE: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?
From: Randy Glenn
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:26:31 -0400
Why use it with WINE when there's a Linux version right there on the
download page?

Besides, the guy says he's ALREADY using Eagle.

-Randy Glenn

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Knickelbein [mailto:jknickelbein@azisa.co.za]
Sent: April 16, 2002 4:18 AM
To: Linas Vepstas; Jesse Lackey
Cc: gnupic@linuxhacker.org
Subject: RE: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?


You could also use Eagle Layout, although it is a Windows program. You could
around that by using WINE. It's freeware for non-commercial use

http://www.eaglepcb.dk/

Regards

Jeff Knickelbein

-----Original Message-----
From: Linas Vepstas [mailto:linas@linas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 April, 2002 2:57 AM
To: Jesse Lackey
Cc: gnupic@linuxhacker.org
Subject: Re: recommend schematic / pcb program for linux ?


On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:27:26PM -0400, Jesse Lackey was heard to remark:
> Hi all ... I'm sure some of you out there do schematic capture & pcb
> layout work, I'd like to find something free or cheap (like, $50 for the
> unemployed hobbyist) under linux.  I'm using the free version of eagle
> (www.cadsoftusa) but the free version is fairly limited and the full
> version is $300 for schematic plus $300 for board work.
>
> I downloaded xcircuit, haven't given it more than 5 minutes tho.


gEDA  http://www.geda.seul.org/
is good at schematic capture; but it hasa nasty user interface.

oregano http://oregano.codefactory.se/
has a great user interface, but its young, and not currently maintained.
Didn't export netlists, either.
(or something like that)
(does have spice interfaces)

PCB  http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
does pcb layout, but I was unable to get it to import the netlists that
geda exported :-(


both geda and pcb suffer from having archaic interfaces, making them
much much harder to use than it should be.  Feature-wise, they *seem*
not bad.


--linas


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