2011/8/20 Colin D Bennett <co...@gibibit.com>: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:55:31 -0400 > John Hudak <jjhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pros/cons? and please, no philosphy about integrated vs independent >> tools...I am interested in aspects such as what things work? what >> doesn't? user experiences such as strengths and weakness (again >> actual/functional and not philosophy) > > I've not “seriously” used it, but I was just today frustrated when I > tried to download and open the Maple Mini KiCad project ([1]) and my > KiCad version (from Ubuntu 11.04 repositories) says the layout and > schematic files are unrecognized types. > > More specifically, trying to open the .brd file says “Unknown file > type” and trying to open the schematic says “<file>.sch is NOT an > EESchema file!” See screenshot at [2]. > > A version incompatibility? Maybe, but you would hope KiCad would at > least tell the user that the file is the wrong version, rather than such > cryptic errors. User error? Maybe, but how hard can it be to open a > board file or schematic file?
The Maple Mini was not designed with KiCAD, it was designed with Eagle. -- Best regards, Atommann _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user