[sdiy] Easy CAD Program to design schematics & pcb layouts

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Joachim Backhaus <jbackhaus at pironet-ndh.com>
Subject: [sdiy] Easy CAD Program to design schematics & pcb layouts
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:45:23 +0200

> Hi,

Hi Joachim,

> does anyone know a CAD program that has an easy
> handling to design schematics & pcb layouts for
> the operating systems Win32 or Linux?
> 
> I ask that because I found many synth-diy schematics
> in the web that are drawn by hand and I want to re-draw
> them in a CAD program for a better overview.

Have a look at gEDA at

http://www.geda.seul.org/

Which is a pretty nice little tool. The gEDA PCB program (gPCB) is a
very slow progresser, but there is another software called PCB which
should do the trick.

Anyway, tossing a schematic together in gEDA is a quick thing.

Cheers,
Magnus