gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Duncan Drennan
I recently completed my first PCB which was done entirely with the gEDA suite. Previously I have used gschem and then output a netlist file and contracted the layout work to be done in PCAD. As I went through the learning process with the PCB layout package I noted down the questions which came up

Re: gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:17:24 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: Most of your points remind me of my own first steps in gschem/pcb. It would be nice to newbies, if they could be rectified in some way The BOM that PCB generates is far nicer than the BOM that gschem generates. The PCB BOM has one

Re: gEDA-user: thoughts and comments after first PCB

2008-10-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 17:17 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: The BOM that PCB generates is far nicer than the BOM that gschem generates. The PCB BOM has one type of item per line with all the corresponding refdes', while gschem creates a line per refdes. Having a PCB style BOM generator in