[sdiy] PCB Design Software?

[John Luciani]

On Nov 16, 2007 1:47 PM, Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I output gerbers and a drill file as well. I have not found any PCB
manufacturer that does not except these.

(* jcl *)

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