Hi all, > -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Colin D Bennett > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:43 PM > To: geda-user@moria.seul.org > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: CERN goes for KiCAD > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:16:23 +0200 > Rubén Gómez Antolí <l...@mucharuina.com> wrote: > > > Is something how Kde us Gnome? > > > > Because after of years of desktop wars, both proyects colaborate in > > base > > (freedesktop) and expand his own style. > > > > There are something to learn in our own free software history? > > That's a good point. Where could things be best shared > between KiCad and gEDA? >
Footprint editor ? https://github.com/bert/fped Fped lives in Ubuntu and Fedora, and maybe other distros, with support for KiCAD users. Anyone interested in a parametric footprint editor with support for pcb ? Just clone, add code and stuff, and send patches to here. This way we can have common files for interoptable footprints. > While it would be nice to share a common schematic/PCB layout > file format, that seems difficult given the different > approaches taken by both tools. > > My initial thought is that the biggest value-to-effort ratio > would be from being able realized by being able to share > symbols and footprints between the tools. Of course even > this has some serious > difficulties: consider all the special attributes and such > required for proper gschem symbols. Perhaps gschem's format > is detailed enough that KiCad symbol information could be > inferred from it. > Footprints might be simpler to share since there seem to be > fewer tool-specific details needed (just defining copper > areas/pads, pins/holes, solder mask and paste, silk screen lines). > > Regards, > Colin > > Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user