[sdiy] getting started with a PCB/schem application

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Jason Proctor at 2009-02-18 08:14...
> i'd like to try my hand at making PCBs in the forseeable. what is the 
> panel's favoured Mac application for schem entry and board layout etc?
> 
> i have taken shallow dips in Osmond and Eagle etc but found them 
> quite unfriendly. eg i haven't even managed to find a TL072 opamp in 
> any of the included or easily found libraries!

1) You may wish to have a look here:
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/>

2) Having to create your own component libraries is a fact of life.  I 
would be nice things were otherwise because that's the part of the 
process I hate!

I have used Eagle for a while (I bought the minimal not-for-profit 
license to get myself a bit of extra board space.)  I plan to migrate to 
gEDA/PCB (don't know if that runs on Mac, but guess you can always build 
it yourself) but am not moving that quickly because a) I'd have to 
re-create all my component libraries and b) just about every application 
I have tried to install in the last few months on my Gentoo/amd64 Linux 
system has either failed to build or not run correctly once built. 
(I'll be migrating to Debian when I can afford the down-time.)

Cheers

M

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