Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2008, 10:15 -0700 schrieb michael shiloh: > Hi Lothar, Dick, > > I just joined this mailing list because I work at Openmoko and I want > to know > what FOSS is available for working with our CAD files and our > schematics. > > I would also like to hear your collective advice and comments, since > you are > clearly the experts in this field. > > Currently the schematics are available only as PDF, but I imagine we > would be > willing to export them in a machine readable form. > > (The schematics, by the way, are simply in > http://downloads.openmoko.org/schematics/) >
Hi Michael, I have tried the FreeCAD software to have a review to the CAD files. It was reported in the openmoko list that it will be usable. But I tried to compile the code. I have posted on their list a question to get compiled the code on Debian PPC. Here it would be interesting, if the schematics get converted, it also would be interesting to get anyhow the CAD files converted to be used with the KICAD 3D application. I hope there is more in the igs than only the housing drawings. I mean it would be good if the part's on the board used are in 3D available too. Lothar > ------------------------------------ Hi Lothar, I tried the pre-compiled version of freeCAD and it worked fine. It seems that the program isn't feature complete, but I was able to open our CAD files and to rotate our parts in 3D space. Unfortunately my knowledge of CAD programs is about zero so I didn't really know what else to try. I'm pretty sure that the IGES files are only the housing and internal plastic bits, but not the components on the PC board. The schematics are indeed PDF only so far, but I will see if we can provide them in kiCAD format as well (whatever that is - I'm brand new here). The schematics include a page showing the component placement and I think the footprint, but not the 3D shape. Some questions I have for you: How mature is KiCad? How does it compare feature-wise to say Qcad or Eagle (apart from being FOSS)? How well stocked is the library? Michael
