On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:09 +0900, Torsten Wagner wrote: > Are there any shortcuts or limitations ? > How mature and stable are the suite yet ? > Can it be really considered for serious work ? >
Stable enough and it can be used for serious work. See the projects from http://www.gpleda.org/links.html#projects i.e. my large DSO board: http://www.ssalewski.de/DAD.html.en Of course, using a commercial tool may reduce the time you need for a project -- if you have all your symbols from shipped library... And of course gEDA-tools can not compete with 10.000$ tools from Cadence/Mentor/OrCad. Dead horse question: We have some very smart developers which do very fine work. But most of them can not spend too much time for this project. Donating to the Linux-Fund may push development. Inviting new developers may be good, but this project is non trivial stuff, so stupid and lazy programmers are not of much benefit. KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is > I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet. > When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more > "professional", so I chose gEDA/PCB. But KiCad and gEDA have make > progress since that time. So I think KiCad can be used for production > work now. > > The main difference is, that KiCAD is available for Windows too, and > that KiCad is more integrated. Some people like this integration very > much. But the modular concept of gEDA makes it more flexible. (Some > people makes ASIC design with gschem, we can netlist to commercial PCB > programs, we can do simulation...) For casual users (doing a simple > board on Saturday afternoon) KiCad may be the better solution. I think I > will stay with gEDA/PCB, but maybe in far future I will try to make a > small project with KiCad. Best regards Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user