Re: [Kicad-developers] Perspective from a Production Environment

2015-06-07 Thread John Devereux
John Devereux writes: > Collin Anderson writes: > [...] > > Hi Collin > > Interesting... I gave kicad a good try over the new year hoping to > switch to it (for commercial use). It was precisely the footprint > creation workflow that I could not get to be usable for me. It was too > hard to cr

Re: [Kicad-developers] Perspective from a Production Environment

2015-06-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Collin, Many thanks for the good review. I can tell you as a long time KiCad developer and lead developer, it's always nice to hear what your doing well. I'm glad you enjoy using KiCad. KiCad does have it's quirks but we will continue to improve things as time goes on to provide the best possib

Re: [Kicad-developers] Perspective from a Production Environment

2015-06-07 Thread John Devereux
Collin Anderson writes: > Some weeks ago, KiCad hit some sort of personal 'critical mass' for me > and I began using KiCad exclusively for all my projects, including > some fairly complex high end switch mode and power designs, the kind > of project where most of the components will need custom f

[Kicad-developers] Perspective from a Production Environment

2015-06-07 Thread Collin Anderson
Some weeks ago, KiCad hit some sort of personal 'critical mass' for me and I began using KiCad exclusively for all my projects, including some fairly complex high end switch mode and power designs, the kind of project where most of the components will need custom footprints unique to that board.