On 10/29/2011 7:07 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 28.10.11 11:58, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> ... I >> started using gEDA, but this page: >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?HalSchematicsUsingGschem > Are there strong reasons for going with gEDA? (I looked at if for PCB > design, a few years ago, but found it a work in progress.) > > So long as the Eagle library of hal components is reasonably up to date, > then the existing eagle2hal process seems ideal for the graphical > presentation and editing of hal configurations. Connections naturally > move with a component, errors can be flagged if two outputs are > connected together, etc. > > If new component macros are needed, they're pretty easy to make, whether > by editing an existing one, or from scratch. The Eagle on-line manual, > and tutorial, are pretty good. > > Having had PCB manufacturers accept Eagle files in lieu of Gerber files, > doing the CAM themselves, I'd find it convenient to use the same tool > for HAL. It's free for that use, and non-commercial PCB design. > > While several decades as a programmer have left me cold on GUI tools for > procedural (lexical input) stuff, a schematic represented as a netlist > is gibberish to the human mind, I find. A good schematic editor is the > one graphical application I can't do without. > > Erik > Erik:
All great points, and I didn't mean to denigrate Eagle by omission. It has become the Lingua Franca in the world of open-source hardware, has excellent documentation, great support, and a vibrant user community. For EMC2, however, I'm waiting for CadSoft to bring out Eagle V6 based on XML representations of everything I care about so I can access their data structures via Python rather than have to write intermediating ULPs. Your closing paragraph made me smile. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
