On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > John Doty wrote: >> >> 1. pcb is not the only layout tool gEDA supports. >> > > Can you suggest some others?
Look at the list of gnetlist back ends. My customers usually have their favored layout designers or contractors, with their favored tools, so I export whatever they want. For my VLSI work, that's a stripped-down hierarchical SPICE netlist that I generate with the spice-sdb back end (thanks, Stuart) and a Makefile that cat's the pieces together. In other cases I've had to write my own back ends. I thoroughly appreciate how easy this is. The Osmond and Calay back ends I wrote are part of the regular distribution. Osmand was particularly easy because they fully document their netlist format: no guesswork required. I also have a gnetlist back end for Lincoln Laboratory's old PH70 PCB layout tool, but as I believe the last user of that has retired, I don't suppose it's worth distributing ;-) I've been using gEDA since 2002, but I've never used pcb. That may change in the near future: there are a couple of potential projects coming up where I expect to do my own layout. Nice to know it's there. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user