[sdiy] xcircuit and pcb

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe John Luciani, from writings of Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:01:18PM -0400:
> I know there are some people on the gEDA mailing list that use the
> combination of xcircuit and pcb. See http://geda.seul.org/ for more
> information.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

> I could probably answer questions on using gschem with pcb. I have
> done apx. 30 board
> layouts using the combination of gschem and pcb.

At first, I was going to give gschem a try, but obtaining all of the
necessary parts of the related software---which appeared to be
archived individually looked like a pain without downloading the
CD-ROM image (which would take me a very long time), and I didn't want
the binary packages.  At first glance, getting, and determining, all
that was needed to be downloaded didn't seem very straight-forward,
but I didn't spend much time looking the web site over; it may make
more sense if I look it over again.  I didn't want to install 500MB of
related and, quite likely unnecessary, software.  

Also, I read that component numbers in gschem start out at 100; is
that true?

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