http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123 A place to share, learn, and grow... en-US Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:09:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.leaflabs.com/search.php http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-814 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:18:46 +0000 gbulmer 814@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>I am thinking of moving from Eagle, partly 'cos the UI drives me *NUTS*, and partly because it isn't open enough.<br /> I'd *much* prefer real Open Source, but I could live with a free tool:<br /> - on all 3 platfoms, Linux, Mac and Windows,<br /> - that lets me do 4 layer boards 'cos (I can't justify/afford more layers), and<br /> - a full 160mm x 100mm (as that is low-cost from Olimex, though I've yet to try them out).</p> <p>Have you made any boards from the KiCAD output?<br /> A friend is trying KiCAD, and liked the schematic capture, but wasn't as happy with PCB routing.<br /> Have you any comments you'd like to share? Especially on PCB routing, making library parts, and CAM (generating Gerbers, drill file etc).</p> <p>BTW - what Gerber viewer do you use? </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-768 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:22:06 +0000 poslathian 768@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>gEDA is actually a set of tools, that loosely play nice together. Overall it is a great toolkit, but it seemed to us the transition from Eagle to KiCad would be softer than to gEDA. Plus, at this time, we dont have a need for 75% of whats in the gEDA bundle (spice etc.) </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-765 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:41:30 +0000 lipi 765@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Why not gEDA? I thought it was the standard open source designer tool, comes with most distros, seems to have big community behind it, etc. </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-759 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:59:08 +0000 poslathian 759@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>its not perfect, but we feel its a better solution for sharing board files and such than eagle, which is not open source. </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-758 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:58:39 +0000 poslathian 758@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>were still using kicad! And are excited about continuing to use it! </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=123#post-754 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:07:53 +0000 edpell 754@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Are you still using KiCAD or would you recommend something else? </p>