John Griessen escreveu: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > Sure, that would be a hit. It wouldn't just promote open software, > but open hardware based on old designs and freely published reference designs > and > eval boards. You can make an argument that it helps piracy, but there's > plenty of > legit reverse engineering to do, and that is always there, free tools or > proprietary tools. > > Ability to import an eval board from a chip maker as gerber2pcb primitives, > hack out junk from it, and essentially turn the whole thing into a footprint > would be a boon to education uses, and any developer use really.
And, if each gerber file could be placed on a different layer, it could also be very usefull to create panels! Even compositions of various boards to generate new Gerbers! Alain _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user