[sdiy] xcircuit and pcb

[Daniel Kruszyna]

R. D. Davis <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
> Is anyone here using a combination of the "xcircuit" schematic drawing
> software and the "pcb" PCB board creation software for the creation
> of printed circuit boards?

I use them regularly. I have posted some projects to my website at
<http://krue.net/> if you'd like examples.

> While using the TCL version of xcircuit to create the netlist for pcb
> from the schematic, it crashed, and I had to go back to the version
> that didn't use TCL.  Anyway, that created a netlist, which I'm now
> trying to get pcb to read in successfully, with no luck.

What is the actual error? Does pcb accept the netlist at all? Have you
already placed and named your components in pcb?

-- Daniel