[sdiy] PCB Design Software?

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Nov 16, 2007 10:05 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
> KiCad works on Mac, Windows & Linux:
>
> http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
>
> It's good to see that Magic Smoke uses it "commercially", since most of
> the people I know are using it only for their own personal projects. Big
> PCB houses want to see things in very specific (i.e. Eagle) formats,
> which means that certain things become "industry standard" (like
> Photoshop in the Graphic Design world), but that doesn't mean that other
> softwares won't work for you under different circumstances (like
> self-etching). But if you plan to send things out to have them
> manufactured, it pays to look into what kind of file formats the
> manufacturer will work with.
>
> d.
>

Yeah, I just output Gerbers and a Drill File and throw those at the
PCB house. Produced a few hundred boards so far, so it works for me.
Now granted, my only other PCB software experience was with an older
version of PadsPCB, so I don't have a lot of basis for comparison with
other packages.


Tim (are you experienced?) Servo
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