On Saturday 09 August 2003 12:07 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > Any circuit designers here? > I am looking into it a little mostly out of curiosity. > At work i use Orcad Capture / Allegro, but that obviously isn't a home > solution. > > I have done a bit of a search: > > xcircuit doesn't seem to be setup enough to design PCBs. > > The gschem that came with mandrake 9.1 doesn't work on my machine. I > might try harder to compile the much newer version, but i was having > trouble with libraries, etc (it was late last night, so i can't even > remember the prob). > Or, i might just wait for the cooker version to be promoted to cooked. > > Eagle looks good if i am only going to do one page schematics and 2 > layer boards. (most home projects would qualify). Also, it will work > just fine for the wiring diagram of my house... :) > > There were some others that are just being worked on, so not really > ready. > > > Any one have a favorite? > > Thanks for any info, > eric
Eric: All of my CAD experience was in the area of mechanical design (lots and lots of AutoCad and a tiny bit of ProE), so I don't have any insight into PCB and other electrical circuit design tools. However, last winter I spent some time doing research into the state of Linux CAD software. The best single source that I've found is: http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ He shows several ECad packages -- including the two that you mention. He also sponsors a mail list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to which I subscribe. You might find something useful in the list archives at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/ -- cmg
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