On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:43:08 PM andy pugh did opine: >>>> >>>>> On 12 January 2012 07:22, gene heskett<ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> >>>>> Have you tried DesignSpark under Wine? >>>>> Though gEDA might be a better bet, being native Linux. (I have never >>>>> tried it) >>>>> >>>> I have looked at gEDA and it shows promise, but it needs to grow some >>>> std method of sizing the parts to an agreed upon std measurement >>>> method. When the parts library is 100% contributor generated, no >>>> two parts seem to be drawn to the same scale or orientation. >>>> >>> If one can use it often enough to keep current, maybe once a week, I >>> find gEDA much easier to use than Eagle. Eagle has an extensive >>> library, but I suspect that is because it takes a PhD in Eagle to >>> create them, so an interested party made sure the popular symbols >>> were available. To me, gEDA makes symbol creation easy enough to just >>> make them as needed. I do miss having rules of thumb for pleasing and >>> useful symbols, but I've been able to make mine good enough for who >>> they are for. Plus one can place and rotate the symbol and connected >>> text on the fly, which from my experience Eagle doesn't do. >>> >>> I haven't made any circuit board g-code using gEDA, so I can't speak >>> to that. >>> >> Like you I tried several circuit board design tools and settled on gEDA >> suite Easy to learn, very configurable, and lots of symbols at >> www.gedasymbols.org I have made a few boards, some using isolation >> engraving and some (I really like) using my mill to hold a sharpie pen >> to draw the traces and remove the excess copper with hcl and hydrogen >> peroxide Then wash off the ink with a solvent >> Cheap and I get the hcl just around the corner >> Also you can flip the board over and use the mill and sharpie the draw >> the silk mask >> >> Richard >> >> > I'll take a look, it's complete kit is installing on that shiny new 250Gb > drive now. > > And still no opto-interrupter devices with a logic output. But generally I > get the impression that its much improved. IIRC it was gerbview that had > the export in various formats option before, but I don't find that option > now. Memory, tain't always what it once was. :( > > Cheers, Gene > Has anybody tried the Visolate software or pcb2gcode utilities? Visolate is a gui java program for converting gerber files to gcode and pcb2gcode is a command line utility that does the same.
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